U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack

[AssMan]

The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, officials said on Thursday.

The officials -- a person familiar with the warning and a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security -- said the Islamic militant group aimed to penetrate and destroy the databases of the U.S. stock market and banking Web sites.

Homeland Security said it had no evidence to corroborate the threat but had issued the warning out of an "abundance of caution." The department said in a statement that the threat was for all of December.

"There is no information to corroborate this aspirational threat. As a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution, US-CERT issued the situational awareness report to industry stakeholders," said Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke.

US-CERT is the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The U.S. government said the threat was to avenge the holding of suspected terrorists at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061130/bs_nm/security_usa_qaeda_dc

 

[Sabretooth]

I suppose this is truly the end of SHH. Now I'll NEVER know what DL looks like.

 

[raybia]

The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, officials said on Thursday.

The officials -- a person familiar with the warning and a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security -- said the Islamic militant group aimed to penetrate and destroy the databases of the U.S. stock market and banking Web sites.

Homeland Security said it had no evidence to corroborate the threat but had issued the warning out of an "abundance of caution." The department said in a statement that the threat was for all of December.

"There is no information to corroborate this aspirational threat. As a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution, US-CERT issued the situational awareness report to industry stakeholders," said Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke.

US-CERT is the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The U.S. government said the threat was to avenge the holding of suspected terrorists at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061130/bs_nm/security_usa_qaeda_dc

Oh hell, I better take my $187.63 out of my savings account!

 

[Mr Sparkle]

I thought they were going to start hijacking threads :dissapointed:

mr sparkle: so yeah, that's my favorite song.

ILOVEOSAMA11234: hey guys, how do you get and avatar?

BuRqA4lIf3: yeah I want one of those.

mr sparkle: ARGHHHHHHH!

 

[raybia]

I thought they were going to start hijacking threads :dissapointed:

That would be cool. Can you imagine if they hijacked one of celldog's threads?

He would have a stroke. t:

 

[Babs Gordon]

hahahahahahahaha. this is great.

 

[Addendum]

Wow. A day after Newt Gingrich gave a speech at a dinner for crusaders of the First Amendment where he said "This is a serious, long-term war, ... Either before we lose a city or, if we are truly stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them from recruiting people."

But I'm not saying anything is funny. Just looks that way.

 

[Motown Marvel]

we have absolutely nothing to support the idea that terrorists might destroy americas financial infra-structure....but it might happen.....hooray for fear mongering!

 

[Addendum]

Would you expect anything less from a republican?

 

[Motown Marvel]

Would you expect anything less from a republican?

hell, i wouldnt expect anything less from the american government in general.