This makes it pretty clear http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030125/tech_virus_boa_1.html Reuters Bank of America ATMs Disrupted by Virus Saturday January 25, 5:33 pm ET SEATTLE (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC - News) said on Saturday that customers at a majority of its 13,000 automatic teller machines were unable to process customer transactions after a malicious computer worm nearly froze Internet traffic worldwide. Bank of America spokeswoman Lisa Gagnon said by phone from the company's headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, that many, if not a majority of the No. 3 U.S. bank's ATMs were back online and that their automated banking network would recover by late Saturday. <snip> "We have been impacted, and for a while customers could not use ATMs and customer services could not access customer information," Gagnon said. <snip> On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com wrote:

good question. anyone know the answer?

JeffH

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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:29:17 -0500 Subject: [IP] is it ATM or ATM Internet Attack's Disruptions More Serious Than Many Thought Possible From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>

- ------ Forwarded Message From: David Devereaux-Weber <dave@cable.doit.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:52:19 -0600 To: dave@farber.net Subject: Re: [IP] Internet Attack's Disruptions More Serious Than Many Thought Possible

One interesting aspect of the reporting for this event is related to the acronym ATM. The University of Wisconsin-Madison uses Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) for backbone transport. We further use LAN Emulation (LANE) on the Asynchronous Transfer Mode backbone (LANE maps IP addresses to ATM Virtual Circuits and back to IP at the far end). The LANE BUS (Broadcast and Unknown Server) on the network was swamped due to the high volume of SQLSlammer hits on broadcast and unknown addresses, effectively denying legitimate traffic. This BUS saturation did not happen with the Code Red worm several months back. We spent several hours thinking our ATM problems were distinct from the SQLSlammer problems.

My question is, has anyone seen source information about the Bank of America and Automated Teller Machines? Is it possible that Bank of America was reporting Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) problems and not Automated Teller Machine (ATM) problems?

Dave

- -- David Devereaux-Weber, P.E. Network Services Division of Information Technology The University of Wisconsin - Madison dave@cable.doit.wisc.edu http://cable.doit.wisc.edu

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