I've found some of the same problems. It seems most of the big boys use some form of *Nix and possibly multiple layers of firewalls and are pretty safe. The smaller banks may have firewalls and IDS units but thier servers are often open to some form of attack. They seem to gravitate toward IIS (probably because developers push them that way) . The real problem seems to be most Windows Admins seem to have no clue on how to secure IIS. I have even had admins proclaim they should be pretty secure because they have all the updates only to find 5-10 IIS holes when testing. Updates can't keep you from installing sample scripts etc. It really seems to be poor hiring decisions at some of the smaller banks. I however can see how it is difficult for a non security person to evauluate security personel. Enough rambling K -----Original Message----- From: Kelvin [mailto:kelvinat_private] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 8:26 PM To: pen-testat_private Subject: Internet Bank Vulnerable! This is highly interesting. I have discovered several Internet Banks that are vulnerable to many standard IIS vulnerabilities. Many of the exploits are quite old. Well for obvious reasons I notified the Bank and the vendor of the Internet Banking solution. I waited until today, which is 48 hours since the email and telephone notification and the Bank is still vulnerable. It amazes me every time something like this happens, it might not be so bad if it were cookies on a cooking website but it really is financial information on the website of a respected bank, it freaks me out even more. As a test, I ran a search string on the file system looking for various combinations such as: "$1,1", "0.12", "1,1" Amazingly enough I came up with entire listings of transactions and account data. The records included names, phone, numbers, credit cards, and the like. No socials.. That I felt good about. Has anyone else had a scenario as serious as this? I am wondering if there is a lesson someone here needs to learn! - Like maybe an associated press lesson. If the newspaper were to find out that a bank was vulnerable - Wow, they would eat that up, besides the problem I am sure would get fixed. Any thoughts? You can see the findings and the article at: http://www.sec33.com/archives/2001/internet_baking/banking_does_it_belong_on line.html Kelvin.
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