[dba-Tech] Compromised

Sure they do. And there is a big bad monster under the bed too.  I'm
thinking the banks don't actually run the bank stuff on a Windows
environment. Windows machines probably are allowed to do somethings as
terminals and such. I've not worked for a bank but know that


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> Had an interesting discussion last night and one fellow that was in
> attendance was a tech from a company call Soroc (http://www.soroc.com).
> The companies client's are all the domestic banks.
>
> The latest revelation is that the NSA and soon every other hacker now has
> software that can compromise all Windows computers and there is no third
> party software that even detects it. This was told to him and his company
> at a security meeting in Toronto, last week. How accurate this is, I have
> no idea but it has the financial sector stirred up.
>
> The possible solutions discussed are completely blocked all PCs in the
> bank from external access, not allowing any computers in the bank that have
> not been vetted out of Toronto, so no BYOD and finally everyone switch to
> Linux.
>
> Nothing is finalized yet but the options are being weighed. (Note: I am
> sure this information was to be a little off the record but all those techs
> that in the business should be made aware of it.)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Jim
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