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dmkinsey

(840 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:01 PM Sep 2012

Iranian cyber-attack against US banks?

Our rock-head Republican here at work just got off the phone with his wife (she's at their home) and announced that "it's all over the news, we're under a cyber-attack by Iran. They're blocking our banking system"
I looked at several web-sites, even Faux News but didn't see any thing like this reported.
Any one heard any thing about this? Where do they get these ideas?

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Iranian cyber-attack against US banks? (Original Post) dmkinsey Sep 2012 OP
Might be this from Bloomberg Cyber Attacks on U.S. Banks Expose Computer Vulnerability Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #1
Iran will do, if needed. ;-) WinkyDink Sep 2012 #3
They are paranoid. WinkyDink Sep 2012 #2
False flag C_U_L8R Sep 2012 #4
Lieberman warmongering again... Viva_La_Revolution Sep 2012 #5
Tell her the Iranians are coming. tjwash Sep 2012 #6

C_U_L8R

(49,521 posts)
4. False flag
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:13 PM
Sep 2012

Could very well be Israeli hackers spoofing Iranian IPs.

Watch Asshat Rmoney try to make this into a political advantage.

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
5. Lieberman warmongering again...
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:15 PM
Sep 2012

Sen. Joe Lieberman, an Independent from Connecticut, said in a C-SPAN interview on Wednesday that he believed the attacks were launched by Iran.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/27/technology/bank-cyberattacks/

tjwash

(8,219 posts)
6. Tell her the Iranians are coming.
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:26 PM
Sep 2012

And that the plan for their Manchurian-Islamic candidate that they painstakingly installed in the White House to finally instigate Sharia law in the US is going just as planned.

It helps best if you have a old-timey handlebar mustache to twirl the ends on while you tell her.

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