More details of the Jihad attacks on U.S. financial Web sites

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Wow, people actually are taking messages posted on message boards
seriously?!?!
 
Richard
 
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061201/D8LNPBGO0.html

The notice was issued to the U.S. cybersecurity industry after officials saw
a posting on a "Jihadist Web site" calling for an attack on U.S.
Internet-based stock market and banking sites in December, said Homeland
Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke. 


There is no information corroborating the threat, Knocke said, adding that
the alert was issued "as a routine matter and out of an abundance of
caution. There is no immediate threat to our homeland at this time." 


Another government official said the threat had appeared on a Web site that
called for Muslims to destroy American economic sites. The attacks were to
be retaliation for the holding of Muslims at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, which houses prisoners accused of ties to terrorist groups 



 
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The attacks were to be conducted in December, "until the infidel new year,"
the site said, according to a U.S. government translation. It called for
attackers to use viruses
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