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Re: Banc of America Article
From: Charles Sprickman <spork () inch com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:27:22 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030125/tech_virus_boa_1.html
Let's make the assumption that the outage of ATM's that BoA suffered was caused by last nights 'SQL Slammer' virus. The following things can then be assumed: a) BoA's network has Microsoft SQL Servers on them.
Not necessarily. There's this statement from a BoA employee: '"We have been impacted, and for a while customers could not use ATMs and customer services could not access customer information," Gagnon said.' While that's clear as mud, one could also infer that the network that they depend on to interconnect their ATMs and branches was impacted by all the garbage network being carried at the time. They don't disclose how these atm's and branches are connected back to their datacenter(s?), but perhaps someone had the bright idea of tunneling everything over something like the Qwest network, which some here reported as being b0rked for quite some time... Or perhaps they (or the VPN concentration gear) are in a shared datacenter space where other customers bouncing this junk around trashed the network within the datacenter. These days you can never make assumptions about what passes for BCP. Just another possibility... Mind you I'm not rushing out to open an account with them. C
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- Re: Banc of America Article, (continued)
- Re: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Banc of America Article Avleen Vig (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Ryan Fox (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article E.B. Dreger (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Dave Howe (Jan 26)
- Re: Banc of America Article Ryan Fox (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Wayne E. Bouchard (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Banc of America Article Charles Sprickman (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Leo Bicknell (Jan 28)
- RE: Banc of America Article Al Rowland (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article E.B. Dreger (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article Daniel Senie (Jan 29)
- OT: Banc of America Article Al Rowland (Jan 29)
- OT: Banc of America Article Al Rowland (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article Charles Sprickman (Jan 29)
- OT: Banc of America Article Al Rowland (Jan 29)
- Re: OT: Banc of America Article Brett Frankenberger (Jan 29)