Call for new cyber laws after major U.S. banks knocked offline for 249 hours

SweX · Apr 5, 2013

A seven month cyber assault on the websites of American banks has led to new calls for security legislation to prevent such attacks.

According to a report by NBC News. the websites of 15 major U.S. banks have been offline for a total of 249 hours in the past six weeks, due to a series of sustained DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.

After one recent attack on March 14, Avivah Litan, a bank security analyst with Gartner Group said: “Interestingly, the attackers could have easily done even more damage but they chose not to. 9,200 bots were identified as attack-capable but the total number of bots actually involved in sending the DDoS traffic to the banks numbered only about 3,200. The other 6,000 bots sat there doing nothing.”

“Literally, these banks are just in war rooms, sitting at controls trying to stop this,” said Litan. “The frightening thing is they [the attackers] are not using as much resources as they have on call. The attacks could be bigger.”
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Nebulus · Apr 5, 2013

Legislation to prevent DDoS? LOL

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