[55216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 13,000 Bank of America ATM's taken out by virus.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Sat Jan 25 20:01:50 2003
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:23:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <003601c2c4c5$26f420d0$0300a8c0@cartman>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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.
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Patrick Greenwell
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