____/ Mark Kent on Monday 01 October 2007 11:30 : \____
> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Pictures of ATM Machine Running Windows XP Crashing
>>
>> Maybe the last punter requested 100 quid, but Windows rounded it up to
>> 100,000 using Excel, and caused the machine to go bananas.
>>
>
> Does anyone know which banks in the UK use Windows at any point in
> handling money? It would be very useful to know where the risks are to
> my cash.
Look no futher than about a month ago:
Indian Bank Restores Site After Malware Attack
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| The bank has closed the site on Friday after it found that the site had been
| hacked,
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070904/tc_pcworld/136716
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bankofindia.com
67.15.253.6 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 21-May-2007
64.39.18.73 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 22-Jan-2005
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.27 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.1.2
mod_perl/1.24
14-Jan-2003
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.6
mod_perl/1.24
12-Sep-2002
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.22 Unix Red-Hat/Linux PHP/4.0.1pl2
mod_perl/1.24 27-Jun-2002
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 28-Jun-2001
204.176.140.102 unknown Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 27-Jun-2001
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.12 Unix Red Hat/Linux mod_ssl/2.6.6
OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0.1pl2 mod_perl/1.24 22-Jan-2001
204.176.140.102 Linux Apache/1.3.6 Unix PHP/3.0.7 17-Nov-2000
Here is what happened:
Breaking: Bank of India seriously compromised
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/breaking-bank-of-india-seriously.html
How the Online Trust Model is Broken - The Bank of India.com attack
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| Manually entering the addresses into a browser will load some of them,
| suggesting that those upstream malware sources are active (others have
| already been shut down).
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http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/08/31/265/How_the_Online_Trust_Model_is_Broken_-_The_Bank_of_India.com_attack
Many banks in the UK are on the same boat (mine included). It's a timebomb
waiting to explode.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | "Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand"
http://Schestowitz.com | Free as in Free Beer | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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