http://www.zdnet.com.au/anz-etrade-outage-actually-ddos-attack-339328984.htm By Michael Lee ZDNet.com.au January 5th, 2012 In the lead-up to the festive season, overseas customers were unable to access the trading platform. In order to execute trades they were required to contact the bank directly. The Australian Financial Review, which first reported the problem, had originally been told that the bank's trading platform had not been hit by hackers, but the bank has now admitted that this was not the case ANZ spokesperson Stephen Ries confirmed to ZDNet Australia that the platform was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The attack involves several independent, or distributed, computers repeatedly making requests for information so as to overwhelm the victim's resources, and prevent or hinder its ability to provide services to legitimate requests. "We experienced some malicious activity that impacted the performance of the E*Trade website prior to Christmas," he said. [...] _____________________________________________________ Did a friend send you this article? Make it your New Year's Resolution to subscribe to InfoSec News! http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Wed Jan 04 2012 - 23:47:14 PST
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