Re: 13,000 Bank of America ATM's taken out by virus.

[Vinny Abello <vinny () tellurian com>]

At 03:23 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Patrick wrote:


> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
>
> >
> > Does this mean that BofA ATM's are SQL based or that BofA is running ATM
> > traffic through some kind of internet VPN?  Perhaps they just plug the
> > ATM's into any connection and pass cleartext transactions over the
> > internet?  This is very suspicious, IMHO.
>
> At $previous_employer half the connections to the various banks they had
> were via VPN.

I know of a bank whose consultants are blithering idiots. The lack of 
security baffles my mind. My home network is 10 times more secure than what 
I've been told about. :( I'd hate to think that this is fairly common among 
banks but I'm starting to wonder... The only positive thing that has come 
out of their lack of security is that I know one place not to put any of my 
money. :P

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