Reuters: US warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack

[Eugene]

Note: This is an "abundance of caution" alert.

US warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack
30 Nov 2006 23:32:07 GMT
Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - 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.

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