[Tfug] Ack! I suddenly became afraid of flying.

[Scott Fuller]

I yes but in turn I don't think I want them loosing my deposits. I have
BofA and they issued a warning on their Online Banking... Pretty much it
said there might be a performance slowdown. Keep in mind... Bank Tellers
are not IT Professionals, so the banks are trying to dumb down their
computer interfaces as much as possible. Who ever won the contract for
the interface decided to go with Microsoft. 

The point of the matter is this was something that was a known bug. If
admins would keep up to date on their patches, this wouldn't have been a
problem. With things like Up2Date (Linux), CVSUpdate (FreeBSD), and the
Windows Updater (Win2k or greater), this would seem like a easy task.
However this only protects part of the network. With rogue servers on
internal production networks it's very easy for a single host to get
infected, and spread to other servers. Not to mention other things like
development servers or any other test systems can play a part in this.
Just remember many Jr and some Sr Admins think because their behind a
firewall their safe.

--Scott Fuller


On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 14:33, Anthony Hess wrote:
> You have the wrong attitude here - you would think you would WANT your bank
> to lose all your ATM withdrawals