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    Default Re: Major cyberattack on select US banks

    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    A group of hackers calling themselves Izz ad-Din al-Qassam warned the financial industry that it was going to attack in retaliation for the controversial film "The Innocence of Muslims," which provoked outrage across the Muslim world earlier this month.

    The U.S. said it suspected that hackers in Iran were also involved.

    "This is the first time that we know about, where a Middle Eastern entity, perhaps a Middle Eastern government, has attacked websites, critical infrastructure, in the United States," Clarke said.

    Even though hackers have not been able to steal any money during these attacks, authorities say they fear the next generation of wide-scale cyber assaults could be more devastating.

    "If they get inside the banks, they can move money around and cause financial chaos," Clarke said.
    My initial reaction to this report is that it smells like a false flag denial of service, intending to spread more fear of Iranians and Muslims amongst Americans.
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    If it is your intuition, for me it is my logic that says the same

    Quote Spiritguide: My intuition says that mossad might have it's fingers in the pie. IMHO
    totally agree with below. On one hand the movie, to spread hatred in the Middle East(and yet, I don't know how true the protest in Middle East are), on the other hand cyber attacks to spread hatred in the US.

    Quote Paul: My initial reaction to this report is that it smells like a false flag denial of service, intending to spread more fear of Iranians and Muslims amongst Americans.[/
    And they are telling us the next move, as usual

    Quote Bill quotations: they fear the next generation of wide-scale cyber assaults could be more devastating.
    and this too, one stone many birds, as usual

    Quote simple human: an attempt at garnering the support of the populace for "cyber-security" legislation. I'm sure the cabal is working all the angles
    Again one stone, many birds, increase more the sanctions on Iran and blame them for attacking our banks, therefore creating the path of war

    Quote Simple Human: Joe Lieberman, who is chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, suggests that this was done by Iran and the Qods force in response to the increasingly strong economic sanctions by the United States and it's European allies.
    Once again, it is sooooo predictable that it is almost boring if it weren't for the disaster and suffering that it intends to spread.

    How many readers is there on this forum? because in 20 posts, we found the why, what, how and most probably when. The who is supposed to be still hidden... hi hi hi.

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    I agree that this smells like a 'false flag' with designs on incriminating Iran and creating a 'need' for further internet 'security' controls.

    As a side note, after all we have learned in the last few years, I struggle to understand why anyone paying attention would still be choosing these particular Banks (Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc.) for regular banking services, when so many smaller, less corrupt places to deposit and manage your monies exist.

    I have a mortgage with CitiMortage, but that was not my choice. It was transferred to them by a different institution. I would never use these for credit services by choice either.
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    This might be a test of the efficacy of the "sleeping pills" we've been force fed. Let's see if it works. Should be interesting.


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    I have been researching this a little for my Facebook Group on Bank and Political Corruption. Thanks for your info! I am going to add it to my site.
    http://www.facebook.com/BankAndPolit...cialCorruption

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    Quote Posted by Rocky_Shorz (here)
    it would be fun to wake up and find $500,000 sitting in my bank account...
    That happened to a friend of mine in the UK about ten years ago. She found she'd had £300,000 (well over half a million dollars) suddenly deposited into her account overnight. She called the bank, and it was a mistake. They were highly embarrassed.

    She said the most interesting part of her story was her friends' different reactions(!). Everyone had a different suggestion about what she should have done. (My own suggestion was to have called a lawyer to see if the money was legally hers or not, and whether she would have committed a crime if she had not reported it.)


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    They print it out of thin air Sleepy....

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    Apparentley less than 3% of money is the actual physical folding stuff. The rest is just numbers on computers.

    So don't bank on getting all your money in paper form.
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    hmmm this doesn't have much sense.. what sense there is to announce attack before attack? SPECIALLY computer attack.
    only one i see is to spread news about evil muslims. Imagine a boxer in ring who says to opponent: for one minute ill punch you in face, how much sense in that would be? dog which barks doesn't bite ...
    it just smells as scam alot.

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    A group of hackers calling themselves...Izz ad-Din al-Qassam

    Any Scrable Players Here?

    I got one....Dizziness, oops no E my bad.
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    Quote Posted by sleepy (here)
    Quote Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
    A group of hackers calling themselves...Izz ad-Din al-Qassam

    Any Scrable Players Here?

    I got one....Dizziness, oops no E my bad.
    If you can get to your money...Would you like to buy a vowel?
    LMAO...Good Punch There!
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    Quote Posted by DarMar (here)
    hmmm this doesn't have much sense.. what sense there is to announce attack before attack? SPECIALLY computer attack.
    only one i see is to spread news about evil muslims. Imagine a boxer in ring who says to opponent: for one minute ill punch you in face, how much sense in that would be? dog which barks doesn't bite ...
    it just smells as scam alot.
    Well, yes, it smells. However pre-announcing, when you can deliver on your announcement, can be more intimidating. Imagine Mohammed Ali, in his prime, telling you (assuming you're not a champion heavy weight boxer) or me that he was going to punch you in the face in one minute. That would give us one minute to anticipate in fear having our brains severely punished.

    In the case of distributed denial of service attacks, one can reasonably pre-announce such, and still be able to carry out the attacks, as apparently they have done in this case (whoever "they" are.)
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    Default Re: Major cyberattack on select US banks

    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    A group of hackers calling themselves Izz ad-Din al-Qassam warned the financial industry that it was going to attack in retaliation for the controversial film "The Innocence of Muslims," which provoked outrage across the Muslim world earlier this month.

    The U.S. said it suspected that hackers in Iran were also involved.

    "This is the first time that we know about, where a Middle Eastern entity, perhaps a Middle Eastern government, has attacked websites, critical infrastructure, in the United States," Clarke said.

    Even though hackers have not been able to steal any money during these attacks, authorities say they fear the next generation of wide-scale cyber assaults could be more devastating.

    "If they get inside the banks, they can move money around and cause financial chaos," Clarke said.
    My initial reaction to this report is that it smells like a false flag denial of service, intending to spread more fear of Iranians and Muslims amongst Americans.
    My thoughts exactly. Strap in everyone, the ride is about to begin.

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    I was just searching some articles regarding the "attack" and this sentance stood out in this article.

    "In the event of insolvency, duress or bankruptcy, the banks could use customer secured funds to assist them in repaying debts and loans. Currently Bank of America (BoA) has sold off portions of their domestic assets to secure capitol while Citigroup has followed suit."

    http://occupycorporatism.com/mega-ba...-cyber-attack/
    Well, isn't that convenient?

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    A group calling itself the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters claimed responsibility per the article listed below. Their response was caused by the movie insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. From this story’s perspective, it was not a false flag.

    By E. Scott Reckard
    September 25, 2012, 9:31 p.m.

    A day of disruptions in Wells Fargo & Co.'s electronic banking operations apparently was the latest in a series of cyber attacks that disrupted online operations at Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    A computer security expert blamed massive denial of service attacks, in which perpetrators overwhelm computer servers with communications demands, causing networks to seize up or slow down.

    In a posting at Pastebin.com, a group calling itself the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters claimed responsibility for last week’s outages at Bank of America, Citi, and JPMorgan before hitting Wells Fargo. It said it would attack U.S. Bancorp on Wednesday and PNC Financial Services Thursday.

    The posting said the attacks would continue until a video insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad was removed from the Internet. But computer security expert Dmitri Alperovitch, who has been investigating the attacks, said it could not be determined whether that was the actual motivation.

    The posting "appears to be accurate in terms of predicting future attacks," said Alperovitch, co-founder of the security firm CrowdStrike Inc. "But I wouldn't necessarily take at face value any of its claims about attribution or the video."

    "It is indeed a very large denial of service attack," Alperovitch said in an email to The Times.

    The long-lasting outages at Wells drew cries of distress from many of the bank's 21 million online customers and 8.5 million mobile banking users.

    "Hey, @wellsfargo.com, what's up with the website?" one disgruntled customer complained on Twitter. "GoDaddy being down is one thing. You guys being down is an entirely different thing."

    The San Francisco company prides itself on being the first bank in the nation to have provided online account access, and Global Finance magazine last month named Wells the best bank offering online account access for the third year in a row.

    The bank responded with apologies online, saying it was working to resolve the problems. It offered no details on how many people had been affected and, as of 9 p.m., provided no estimate of when it might have its online services restored.

    "We apologize to customers who may be experiencing intermittent access issues to wellsfargo.com and online banking," the bank said in an email to The Times. "We are working to quickly resolve this issue. Customers can still access their accounts through our ATMs, stores and by phone."

    Wells Fargo technology and operations spokeswoman Sara Hawkins declined to elaborate.


    http://www.latimes.com/business/mone...,1876507.story

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    "That would give us one minute to anticipate in fear having our brains severely punished." - Paul. Absolutely a great distraction.

    ""In the event of insolvency, duress or bankruptcy, the banks could use customer secured funds to assist them in repaying debts and loans. Currently Bank of America (BoA) has sold off portions of their domestic assets to secure capitol while Citigroup has followed suit." - Sleepy

    According to a Rolling Stone article on Mitt Romney, this is exactly how he made his millions. A business consultant, maybe he's saving B of A right now. They just laid off over ten thousand people...stock goes up for the third quarterly report! I'm sure their business consultant walked off with a huge fee, or the year end bonuses were signed and sealed.

    Just a shaving off the tip of the ice berg I'm sure...

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