Cyberattacks Affect Citizens Bank Website
PNC Bank, others have also reported attacks by an online Islamist group.
An online Islamist group protesting an anti-Muslim video on YouTube is to blame for a recent series of cyberattacks against Citizens Bank and other banks, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported. Bank officials confirmed that customers have had trouble accessing mobile and online banking services due to a distributed denial of service [DDoS] attack. Rather than attempt to break into customer accounts or otherwise violate a bank's online security, a distributed denial of service attack is intended to overwhelm a website with bogus requests so that legitimate vistors can not access it. Typically, thousands of computers ― often computers belonging to people who are unaware their machines have been compromised ― are remotely controlled by third…
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John Q. Public
7:33 am on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
I've been having problems with Chase.com for several month, also a target of DoS attacks. Very annoying at times. more ›