So now I know why the ATM just sort of looked at me funny when I attempted to deposit a check from Brandt the other day.
Damn Microsoft "security."
Ugh.
Posted by jzawodn at January 29, 2003 08:08 AM
Oh, so BoA doesn't deserve any fault for crappy design of their ATM network? How about for incompetently failing to apply the relevant patch in the six months after its release? IMHO it's telling that BoA was the only US bank so afflicted.
but the important part is, did you eventually deposit the check?
We really cant blame BoA for this. They have the ATM network nationwide and that means their traffic has to go through many carriers. When ISP's like UUnet / Worldcom died last week, BoA really cant do anything about it
We really cant blame BoA for this. They have the ATM network nationwide and that means their traffic has to go through many carriers. When ISP's like UUnet / Worldcom died last week, BoA really cant do anything about it
Er, they could have a closed network on leased lines and frame relay and such. There's no reason to have their "secure" network connected to the internet.
Someone on IP had this to say about ATM:
From: David Devereaux-Weber
[email removed]
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:52:19 -0600
To: [emailremoved]
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 aniversity of Wisconsin-Madison uses Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) for backbone transport. We further use LAN Emulation(LANE) on the synchronous 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
[email removed]
http://cable.doit.wisc.edu
Viruses and worms can easily cross into "secure" networks. All it takes is on infected laptop. Pieces of MS SQL Server lurk under some applications. It's not beyond the range of possibility for someone to get infected from home, then plug into the corporate net later that morning without having rebooted (which would have killed off the SQL Server work).
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an ATM at a local bank that had crashed.
And guess what was showing on the screen? Yep, you probably guessed - a Win98 Blue Screen of Death(TM).
It makes me kinda glad I don't regularly use that particular cash machine...
Hi Jeremy, do you think this is a post with a title that's Jacob Nielsen compliant :)
