http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231721/Wells_Fargo_recovers_after_site_outage By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service September 26, 2012 Wells Fargo's website experience intermittent outages on Tuesday, while the hacker group claiming responsibility threatened to hit U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services Group over the next two days. Wells Fargo apologized on Twitter for the disruption, saying it was working to restore access. By Wednesday morning, the site appeared to be functioning. A group calling itself the "Mrt. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters" said it coordinated the attacks, and planned further ones on U.S. Bancorp on Wednesday and PNC Financial Services Group on Thursday, according to a post on Pastebin. The method used against Wells Fargo could be a distributed denial-of-service attack, which bombards a website with traffic in an attempt to make it unreachable, although the bank did not indicate the cause. The group said the cyberattacks are in retaliation for the 14-minute video trailer insulting the Prophet Muhammad, saying the attacks will continue until the video is removed from the Internet. The attacks will last eight hours starting at 2:30 p.m. GMT, the group wrote. [...] -- ExpandingSecurity.com Live OnLine classes won’t wreck your schedule. Get that cert and be done before 2012 ends. Last ISSAP 2012 class starts Sept. 25th. Last 2012 CISSP and CEH starts Oct. 1: CEH info signup: http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/ceh-certified-ethical-hacker-online/ CISSP info signup: http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/cissp-live-online-10-week-course/ ISSAP info signup: http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/issap-information-systems-security-architecture-professional/Received on Thu Sep 27 2012 - 01:33:36 PDT
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