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Islamic hackers threaten Bank of America and NY Stock Exchange

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The Bank of America’s online banking site suffered occasional problems Tuesday after threats on the internet that a cyber-attack would be launched on the bank and other US targets in protest at a film mocking Islam.

A message on patebin.com claiming to be from ‘cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam’- a reference to the military wing of Hamas- declared that it would attack the Bank of America and the New York Stock Exchange as a first step in a campaign against “American Zionist Capitalists”.

The posting promised to continue aggressive actions until the “erasing of the nasty movie”, which although YouTube has blocked in volatile regions, remains available in other parts of the world.

The film in question, a privately funded short-movie, mocking the Prophet Mohammad, has ignited days of demonstrations.The uproar has left many dead across the Arab world, including Africa, Asia and some Western countries.
A Bank of America spokesman told Reuters that the website had suffered some problems but was available to customers.
But customers contacted by Reuters in Michigan, Ohio, Georgia and New York said they couldn’t access the site.

The threat to the New York Stock Exchange has seemingly not materialized as trading continued as normal.
Bill Pennington, chief strategy officer at WhiteHat Security, told the weekly magazine InformationWeek that the problems on the Bank of America website do not necessarily mean they’ve been hacked.

“It’s reasonable to suppose it could be a coincidence,” he said, citing the recent GoDaddy outage, which was an internal technical error for which hackers claimed responsibility.

But he did concede that the website’s problems could also be the result of hackers, saying that hacking was “pretty easy”.
He said that only the perpetrators and possibly the victims [the Bank of America] will ever really know what happened.
Pennington warned that businesses should expect more attacks, “It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better,” he said.


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This smells to high heaven of a false flag thing... The powers that be are trying to find/create a reason to take more internet powers from us....

With this issue ...U.S. Caught Creating Three New Cyberwar Viruses

In about of Orwellian double speaks the Obama administration touts cybersecurity while using it as cover to conduct cyber warfare. - https://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/09/19/caught-creating-cyberwar-viruses-186931/
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U.S. Linked to previously unknown computer viruses in Mideast

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the United States may have developed three previously unknown computer viruses for use in espionage operations or cyber warfare.

The findings are likely to bolster a growing view that the U.S. government is using cyber technology more widely than previously believed to further its interests in the Middle East. - Charleston Voice: U.S. Linked to previously unknown computer viruses in Mideast
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Two Democratic senators are urging President Obama to direct his administration to publish “advisory” guidelines through an executive order on cybersecurity.

In a letter (PDF) sent to the White House [yesterday], Delaware’s Christopher Coons and Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal say it’s time for an executive order “directing the promulgation of voluntary standards” by the Department of Homeland Security.

It’s hardly clear that the vast Homeland Security bureaucracy — which has received plenty of failing cybersecurity grades from congressional overseers — is best-equipped to advise the private sector on how to secure networks and critical infrastructure. - Democratic senators call for ‘cybersecurity’ executive order | _
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This smells like the run-up to a new false-flag event. The precedent for this is that in the weeks before 9-11 the FBI was shutting down the websites of Muslim groups in the United States to silence those voices that might suggest someone other than Muslims did 9-11. Obviously, in advance of a new false-flag, the same tactic is being employed on a larger scale, hacking the DNS router tables to block alternative media while not interfering with corporate money-making websites.

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