Re: Microsoft worm affecting Automatic Teller Machines

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 01/28/03 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:43:25 GMT

In article <bD2sSmuykGTX@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote:
>Are banks now relying on the Internet for ATM transfer ?
>
>Or do they have ATM networks interconnected to the Internet to allow
>propagation of a work to the ATM networks.

My guess is they're using VPNs to link ATM networks to each other and/or
the bank offices. 

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