Re: wrt BofA ATM: is it ATM 'automated' or ATM 'async' ?

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

This makes it pretty clear

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030125/tech_virus_boa_1.html

Reuters
Bank of America ATMs Disrupted by Virus
Saturday January 25, 5:33 pm ET

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC - News) said on 
Saturday that customers at a majority of its 13,000 automatic teller 
machines were unable to process customer transactions after a malicious 
computer worm nearly froze Internet traffic worldwide.

Bank of America spokeswoman Lisa Gagnon said by phone from the company's 
headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, that many, if not a majority 
of the No. 3 U.S. bank's ATMs were back online and that their automated 
banking network would recover by late Saturday.

<snip>

"We have been impacted, and for a while customers could not use ATMs and 
customer services could not access customer information," Gagnon said.

<snip>

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Jeff.Hodges () KingsMountain com 
wrote:

> good question. anyone know the answer?
>
>
> JeffH
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> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:29:17 -0500
> Subject: [IP] is it ATM or ATM  Internet Attack's Disruptions
>         More Serious Than Many Thought Possible
> From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
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> From: David Devereaux-Weber <dave () cable doit wisc edu>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:52:19 -0600
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Internet Attack's Disruptions More Serious Than Many
> Thought Possible
>
> One interesting aspect of the reporting for this event is related to the
> acronym ATM.  The University of Wisconsin-Madison uses Asynchronous
> Transfer Mode (ATM) for backbone transport.  We further use LAN 
> Emulation
> (LANE) on the Asynchronous Transfer Mode backbone (LANE maps IP 
> addresses
> to ATM Virtual Circuits and back to IP at the far end).  The LANE BUS
> (Broadcast and Unknown Server) on the network was swamped due to the 
> high
> volume of SQLSlammer hits on broadcast and unknown addresses, 
> effectively
> denying legitimate traffic.  This BUS saturation did not happen with the
> Code Red worm several months back.  We spent several hours thinking our 
> ATM
> problems were distinct from the SQLSlammer problems.
>
> My question is, has anyone seen source information about the Bank of
> America and Automated Teller Machines?  Is it possible that Bank of 
> America
> was reporting Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) problems and not 
> Automated
> Teller Machine (ATM) problems?
>
> Dave
>
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> David Devereaux-Weber, P.E.
> Network Services
> Division of Information Technology
> The University of Wisconsin - Madison
> dave () cable doit wisc edu  http://cable.doit.wisc.edu
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