More people from Scotiabank’s IT department need to read the news on BahamasB2B, or somewhere else.<\/p>\n
Not keeping up on the latest news caused the bank some problems yesterday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Scotiabank’s operations throughout New Providence were affected, causing what some customers called “severe inconvenience”.<\/p>\n
It could have all been avoided had the bank’s IT managers updated their system with a patch released by Microsoft last Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Not alone<\/b><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\n