Comments on: World Bank Under Cyber Siege in Unprecedented Attack http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/10/11/world-bank-under-cyber-siege-in-unprecedented-attack/ Homeland Security News and Information Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:39:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/10/11/world-bank-under-cyber-siege-in-unprecedented-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-25891 Chris Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:25:40 +0000 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/?p=4448#comment-25891 Man I would tell that bank to hire someone who knows what they are doing. I wonder if it might be an inside job. You would think that the world bank would have top of the line IT people to secure things like this. I am putting my money that someone from the inside had something to do with it. Man I would tell that bank to hire someone who knows what they are doing. I wonder if it might be an inside job. You would think that the world bank would have top of the line IT people to secure things like this. I am putting my money that someone from the inside had something to do with it.

]]> By: Brian http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/10/11/world-bank-under-cyber-siege-in-unprecedented-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-25519 Brian Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:21:00 +0000 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/?p=4448#comment-25519 Here is an article from fox news December 2006, Link to full story below. FOXNEWS.COM Security Warning Issued by DHS for Possible Terrorist Cyber Attack on U.S. Financial Institutions Friday, December 01, 2006 WASHINGTON — The government warned on Thursday of a possible Internet attack on U.S. stock market and banking Web sites from a radical Muslim group, but officials said the threat was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger. The notice was issued to the U.S. cybersecurity industry after officials saw a posting on a "Jihadist Web site" calling for an attack on U.S. Internet-based stock market and banking sites in December, said Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke. There is no information corroborating the threat, Knocke said, adding that the alert was issued "as a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution. There is no immediate threat to our homeland at this time." • Get more coverage at the Homeland Security Center. Another government official said the threat had appeared on a Web site that called for Muslims to destroy American economic sites. The attacks were to be retaliation for the holding of Muslims at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which houses prisoners accused of ties to terrorist groups. RelatedVideo Cyber Threat? The attacks were to be conducted in December, "until the infidel new year," the site said, according to a U.S. government translation. It called for attackers to use viruses that can penetrate Internet sites and destroy data stored there. The alert was issued by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The team, a partnership between private industry and a number of government agencies, is based at the Homeland Security Department and warns Web sites about virus outbreaks and other Internet attacks. Spokespeople for the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq declined to comment on the cyber-terror threat. Stock exchanges and financial institutions strengthened physical security after.......Continued. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233477,00.html?sPage=fnc/politics/lawenforcement Here is an article from fox news December 2006, Link to full story below.

FOXNEWS.COM

Security Warning Issued by DHS for Possible Terrorist Cyber Attack on U.S. Financial Institutions
Friday, December 01, 2006

WASHINGTON — The government warned on Thursday of a possible Internet attack on U.S. stock market and banking Web sites from a radical Muslim group, but officials said the threat was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger.

The notice was issued to the U.S. cybersecurity industry after officials saw a posting on a “Jihadist Web site” calling for an attack on U.S. Internet-based stock market and banking sites in December, said Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke.

There is no information corroborating the threat, Knocke said, adding that the alert was issued “as a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution. There is no immediate threat to our homeland at this time.”

• Get more coverage at the Homeland Security Center.

Another government official said the threat had appeared on a Web site that called for Muslims to destroy American economic sites. The attacks were to be retaliation for the holding of Muslims at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which houses prisoners accused of ties to terrorist groups.

RelatedVideo
Cyber Threat? The attacks were to be conducted in December, “until the infidel new year,” the site said, according to a U.S. government translation. It called for attackers to use viruses that can penetrate Internet sites and destroy data stored there.

The alert was issued by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The team, a partnership between private industry and a number of government agencies, is based at the Homeland Security Department and warns Web sites about virus outbreaks and other Internet attacks.

Spokespeople for the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq declined to comment on the cyber-terror threat.

Stock exchanges and financial institutions strengthened physical security after…….Continued.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233477,00.html?sPage=fnc/politics/lawenforcement

]]> By: Rob Douglas - Editor, InsideIDTheft.info http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/10/11/world-bank-under-cyber-siege-in-unprecedented-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-25517 Rob Douglas - Editor, InsideIDTheft.info Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:22:01 +0000 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/?p=4448#comment-25517 This is an important story that is worthy of watching as it develops. This is an important story that is worthy of watching as it develops.

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