Concern about al Qaeda cyber attack on broker data bases

Reuters:

The U.S. government warned on Thursday of a possible al Qaeda call to attack U.S. financial online services but said there was no evidence to suggest the effort could cause harm.

A person familiar with the warning said al Qaeda may be aiming to penetrate and destroy the databases of U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites.

Reaction in the financial community was muted, with markets showing little or no reaction.

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The warning said the threat called for attacks to begin Friday and run through the month of December in retaliation for the United States keeping terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.

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Denial of service is when attackers try to prevent legitimate users from accessing a Web site. They can do it by flooding network connections or filling up storage space so the Web site becomes paralyzed.

The warning said the threat came from a group calling itself "ANHIAR al-Dollar." A person familiar with the warning said the effort was related to al Qaeda and intended to avenge "Muslim brothers in the crusaders' Guantanamo prison camp."

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This sounds like two different types of attacks. It also sounds like there are some other people who need to be sent to Gitmo.

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