[privacy] Warnings issued

["Randall M" <randallm () fidmail com>]

In case you have not heard this:



US warning to financial institutions over possible cyberattacks
 1 Dec 2006

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The US government has sounded a warning to financial institutions about
possible al-Qaeda-linked cyberattacks on the US stock market and online
banking services. December has been marked as the danger month after the
terrorist organisation has called for attacks aimed at disrupting online
services and breaking into secure financial sites.

Warnings of potential cyber-terrorist attacks have been sounded previously,
both in the US and in other countries, such as Australia.
This time around the threat linked to the continued detention of suspects by
US authorities at the Guantanamo Bay facility. The US Computer Emergency
Readiness Team issued a "situational awareness report" to the financial
industry. According to the warning attacks could begin on the first day of
December and run for the whole of the month.

So far there has been little reaction to the warning, particularly as the
Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency tasked with distributing
it, said that there was no concrete information or intelligence to back the
threats. The only source of information is thought to be a website from a
group linked to al-Qaeda that calls for cyberattacks in December, presumably
focusing on the run up to the festive period.

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Thank You 
Randall M  

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