[28655] in bugtraq
Re: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eloy A. Paris)
Sat Jan 25 21:05:01 2003
To: Brian McGrogan <brian@encinc.com>
From: peloy@chapus.net (Eloy A. Paris)
Date: 25 Jan 2003 19:46:27 -0500
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Brian McGrogan <brian@encinc.com> writes:
> The fact that the nations largest banking institution relies on the
> Internet for ATM transactions is disturbing.
The trend to rely more and more on the Internet for our most critical
infrastructures won't change. Quite the opposite, I'm afraid. It's
analog (to a certain degree) to the way we began to rely on the
telephone network (POTS) years ago.
We'll just have to do a better job at securing the Internet, its
infrastructure and applications.
> I personally experienced this while at a Bank of America ATM today. I
> will never use Bank of America because of a statement like that.
I see your point, but a large-scale incident like today's can also
affect private networks (although less likely, of course.)
Eloy.-
