[Am-info] Re: Virus-like attack hits web traffic

[Erick Andrews]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:33:59 -0500, Eric M. Bennett wrote:

>>I'm not sure what you mean by "real world" consequences, but one of 
>>the "real politic" consequences is a Bush administration official 
>>siding with Microsoft by blaming the victims.
>
>Maybe that's a bad choice of wording on my part, but from what I can 
>tell these sorts of incidents don't usually have spill-over effects 
>on systems (like ATMs) that one assumes are not directly dependent on 
>the internet.  This one apparently did.

I read the CBS article you posted.  It didn't specifically state that ATMs
themselves were hit, nor what OS these ATMs are running.

Of course, from a customer's point of view, "It's still broke".

-- 
Erick Andrews