[dba-Tech] Compromised

Hi Gary:

That is exactly right. The banks will now lock down everything. Before there was some modest liberties allowed to some senior mangers...not any more. It may seem a bit over the top to you but you don't work in a bank, security branch or in government policy and protection offices and so on. These people are far more paranoid than we are but they are protecting a lot more as well.

Aside: Do you know that there are market places on the web where all sorts of exploits and hacks are sold to who ever can afford it. It is not illegal. Some Windows exploits can garner as much as 10K. So if someone like yourself discovered a previously unknown unblocked back-door to the latest windows box, you could make yourself a fortune...and many do.  

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Kjos" <garykjos at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 10:29:35 AM
Subject: Re: [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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