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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher J. Wolff)
Sat Jan 25 18:07:52 2003

From: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:57:35 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43267-2003Jan25.html

Regards,
Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO
Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
http://www.bblabs.com



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