One interesting assumption (underline assumption) is that BofA's service providers were partially sharing facilities between their private (ATM/FR) and public (Internet) networks. If that's the case, once the CPU on some of those shared routers/switches went to 100%, BofA's automatic teller machines are going to disappear.
Paul Forbes Network Engineer Trimble > -----Original Message----- > From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 10:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: UDP port 1434 [7:61891] > > > Maybe this is a silly question considering where I work, but is it > common for huge banks to connect their ATMs to their data centers over > the Internet? We certainly don't do that, and wouldn't even consider > doing it, so I was surprised that BofA appears to be doing just that. > > Then again, they probably have twenty times more ATMs than we do, so > perhaps they have different issues to be considered. > > John > > >>> "Priscilla Oppenheimer" 1/27/03 11:24:42 AM > >>> > Good points. How much bandwidth goes to some of the remote ATMs? > Probably > very little. They probably got crunched by the huge number of UDP > packets. > > Of course, better filtering would have prevented that. > > But there's no need to assume that BoA runs MS-SQL or to worry that > private > info was compromised, etc. DoS attacks usually have very little to do > with > privacy compromises. > > Not claiming to be a security expert, so just correct me if I'm way > off > base! :-) Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=61979&t=61891 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
