Iran CYBER-ATTACKS Wall Street

[presence]

Caught in their web: Iran reportedly returns fire in US cyberwar

22 September, 2012

Iran has launched a major cyber counter-offensive on US targets, attacking major Wall Street institutions, Reuters news agency sources report.
Bank of America Corp, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup have come under ever increasing denial-of-service attacks since the end of last year. The attacks use brute processing force to make a website unavailable to ordinary users, but gain no access to private information.

"Most people didn't take Iran seriously. Now most people are taking them very seriously," a source told Reuters. Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase experienced unexplained website disruptions earlier this week, and NBC reported that the attacks may have been orchestrated by Iran.

The financial institutions in question and official bodies have refused to comment.

http://rt.com/news/iran-hackers-us-cyberwar-697/

Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) said Friday that reported cyber attacks against major American financial institutions were likely sponsored by Iran and were in retaliation for sanctions imposed on the country by the United States and its allies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1904846.html

The attacks on the three largest U.S. banks originated in Iran, but it is not clear if they were launched by the state, groups working on behalf of the government, or "patriotic" citizens, according to the sources, who requested anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the matter.

They said the attacks shed new light on the potential for Iran to lash out at Western nations' information networks.
[]
NBC reported late on Thursday that the Iranian government was behind these attacks, citing U.S. national security sources.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...88K12H20120921

Gosh... I feel so bad about JPMorgan suffering a cyberattack. It just brings me to tears.

presence

[acptulsa]

Well. Obviously we need to send our children off to die in the desert so we can get online and find out what hidden fees our banks are trying to screw us with today. There's a cause worth dying for!

[presence]

must spread rep

[RickyJ]

Good for Iran! It is about time they give these parasites a taste of their own medicine.

[Carehn]

I was running low on gas the other day... Must have been some kind of evil Iranian plot of some kind. And I stubbed my toe this morning. I think Iran had something to do with it.

[presence]

No... that was Benton

[Dianne]

Comes at a convenient time, just when Obama is ready to hand over control of the internet to the United Nations, to keep us safe of course.

[puppetmaster]

I don't believe it was Iran.......not for one second.

[alucard13mmfmj]

Wow. Good for Iran. They finally targeting the right people/targets that are responsible for their ailments and the world's ailments.

Also... how come "terrorists" goes for innocent americans but not after the people who are responsible for all these problems.

[acptulsa]

I don't believe it was Iran.......not for one second.

Anonymous is a useful idiot, is it not? The government used to have to make its own false flag attacks; now it can just blame the boogeyman du jour for whatever Anonymous is up to.

Given the budget worries, this is important!

Also... how come "terrorists" goes for innocent americans but not after the people who are responsible for all these problems.

Because guns are rarely designed for easy self-inflicted wounds?