[dba-Tech] Compromised

Hi Martin:

With my personal crap who care...I say fill their boot but if I am responsible for someone else's personal data and there is a security and financial component to it, I can not be so flippant or fatalistic.

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Reid" <mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Cc: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 11:25:26 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Compromised

If they are tapping the fibre what's it matter what the OS is. Basically if they want your data bad enough they get it. Simple.

Martin

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> On 11 Oct 2013, at 10:30, "Gary Kjos" <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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