Banks Are Hungry for DHS Data

摘要

The department of homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) raised a few eyebrows in late November when it sent a warning out to U.S. banks and financial institutions about a possible cyber attack by Islamic militants (infoworld.com/4789). The alert, dated Nov. 30, was triggered by a posting on what the DHS considered an Islamic jihadi Web site calling for hackers to attack U.S. financial and banking Web sites, apparently to protest the detention of Muslims at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. However, the warning was heavily qualified, with DHS calling the threat "more aspirational than operational." Financial firms downplayed the danger, too. One security executive at a major brokerage told InfoWorld that the warning was a "non-event."