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


From: Patrick <patrick () stealthgeeks net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:23:16 -0800 (PST)


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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