Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Anonymous Declares War on the New York Stock Exchange

From betabeat: The hacker collective Anonymous has released another video and with it, another declaration of war–this time on the New York Stock Exchange. A serious attack on the NYSE’s infrastructure would devastate global trade, but Anonymous’s exact aim is unclear. However, the hacker collective is planning to overwhelm the exchange’s public-facing website, NYSE.com, in a DDOS attack.

If the hackers take down the NYSE, it could actually ding the industry the protesters haven’t really managed to hurt yet–aside from disrupting the usually-quiet morning walks of some of the area’s bankers. (Note: Many of the city’s finance professionals don’t work on Wall Street–most of the trading is now done digitally, leaving the trading floor to ossify into an increasingly irrelevant symbol.)

Learn more at http://www.betabeat.com/2011/10/04/anonymous-declares-war-on-october-10-at-330-p-m-the-new-york-stock-exchange-will-be-no-more/

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