More people from Scotiabank’s IT department need to read the news on BahamasB2B, or somewhere else.
Not keeping up on the latest news caused the bank some problems yesterday.
A computer worm that targets machines running Windows 2000 shut down certain aspects of Scotiabank’s front-end systems, admitted Michael Munnings, the bank’s senior manager of sales and marketing.
Scotiabank’s operations throughout New Providence were affected, causing what some customers called “severe inconvenience”.
It could have all been avoided had the bank’s IT managers updated their system with a patch released by Microsoft last Tuesday.
Fortunately, the bank lost no cash in the process and is assurring customers that all personal information is fully intact, and has not been threatened by the intrusion.
Not alone
On Tuesday, the virus also attacked computer systems worldwide using Microsoft operating systems, also shutting down the computers of some major players like CNN, ABC and The New York Times.
Microsoft said the worm is relatively minor. Symptoms include the repeated shutdown and rebooting of the computer. A press release from Microsoft, last Tuesday, said their analysis has revealed that the problems were caused by variations of a worm named Zotob.
The company has urged all customers to apply the most recent security patches available by Microsoft to ensure that their systems are protected from attempts at exploitation.
