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U.S. Warns of Possible al-Qaida Cyber Attack

Via MSNBC.

The U.S. government has notified U.S. private financial services of a call by the al-Qaida terrorist network for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, officials said.

Almost immediately, however, other officials downplayed the risk of any danger to U.S. financial institutions.

NBC News' Pete Williams reported that a unit of the Homeland Security Department sent out an advisory to banks, saying that a jihadist Web site posted an “aspirational” item, which said it would be a good thing to carry out cyber attacks on the U.S. financial industry to retaliate for abuses at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.

posted by Fergie @ 11/30/2006 04:24:00 PM