ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Banks around the world are getting ready to face a massive cyber assault. But now that it’s been discovered, it might not happen as expected.

Cyber security is something that many consumers view more as a theoretical concept than an issue worth worrying about. After all, the majority of consumers have never been hacked or watched their bank accounts siphoned of cash.

===> For many folks, security issues are read about, never experienced.

But that might soon change. <===

A so-called “cyber gang” of Botmasters was discovered in October to be working on a scheme that would allow them to target customer accounts at 30 banks, including Chase, Citibank, and even PayPal, and steal money from unsuspecting victims.

Cyberattacks launched against banks were twice as large as any in history and 10 times larger than typical attacks.

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

The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that briefly disrupted the online services of a half-dozen major financial institutions late last month -- Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, PNC Financial Services Group, Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase -- ended abruptly about two weeks ago, even though the group that claimed credit for them had threatened to continue them.

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