Security experts warned of the risk of terrorism from the Internet

US-CERT has just warned banks and financial firms to beware of the risk of terrorism coming from their own websites.

The US computer emergency response team (US-CERT) has issued a warning about the possibility of terrorist attacks against financial institutions run by al-Qaeda. after done.

According to unofficial Reuters sources, a group claiming to be al-Dollar plans to launch denial-of-service (Denial of Service) attacks on online banking websites and websites purchased online. throughout December.

Joanna Gonzalez, a spokesman for the US National Security Office (DHS), confirmed that US-CERT sent a "situation-aware" warning to financial institutions. This warning is based on intelligence collected by DHS. This spokesperson did not provide any further details.

Security analysts say at least now there have been some small signs of the possibility of an impending attack. They suggested that the US Response Team should have more practical actions than just provide a directional warning.

" We have seen news that started all this activity, " said Johannes Ullrich, SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) technology director in Bethesda. " In general, their main content is information about kids exchanging hacker tips. Things like software codes, using some popular tools like VNC, . ".

Much of the content is scattered in anti-American and anti-Israel papers. Ullrich sarcastically: " I don't think that threat is real. In general, banks have more dangerous opponents than kids ."

" I think DHS knows very well that the information collected is unreliable ," said Howard Schmidt, a free security consultant and a former White House terrorist security advisor. Warnings are sent more often than problems related to upcoming attacks.

" Financial services firms are always on the alert every day to prepare for threats that can happen at any time, " Schmidt commented. " This is just one of their usual activities. "

Even so, the warning given is still seen as a reminder of the potential for potential terrorist attacks on US infrastructure, Ted Julian, deputy director of security strategy. Application Security database joined.

" In the current situation, making a denial-of-service attack is not difficult. Exploiting the code becomes easy and botnets become popular ," Julian said. CERT's warning appears to indicate that attacks over the Internet are not only the field of organized crime groups but also the attraction of terrorists.

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