full-disclosure - RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!

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From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK
 PORT 1434!

You'll find that you underestimate the number of banks and credit related
transactions that use internet connectivity to transact transfers and
payment activity.  Pay attention next time you use a ATM or credit card at
the gas pumps or the grocery, or a card in those ATM's in various malls
and stores.  You'll hear the modems in many dialing during the
'authorization' phase of the transaction, and few are dialing
into a private networked system.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jason Coombs wrote:

> Bank of America should never have allowed their ATM network to rely on
> routes that could be impacted by non-ATM network computer systems.
>
> That Sapphire might have had this effect makes the sensibility behind
> writing and releasing it even more apparent, if this was in fact defensive
> work of a government agency as my speculation suggested.
>
> Jason Coombs
> jasonc@...ence.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard M. Smith [mailto:rms@...puterbytesman.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:11 PM
> To: jasonc@...ence.org; 'Jay D. Dyson'; 'Bugtraq'; 'Full-Disclosure'
> Subject: RE: MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!
>
>
> However, this worm might not be so harmless as it appears because of
> collateral damage:
>
>    Bank of America ATMs Disrupted by Virus
>
>
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