JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Coordinated Cyberattack

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/technology/hackers-target-banks-including-jpmorgan.html

by blatherard • 12 years ago

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awwaiid• 12 years ago

This article has an AMAZING amount of weak conclusions and flat-out poor wording. Maybe the author was under an above-average tight deadline? Scaremongering?

miles932• 12 years ago

The number of times they mention the insidious threat of the seething hacker horde of "Russians" makes me feel positively McCarthy-esque. Absurd.

jes2• 12 years ago

With respect, there is reason to believe that McCarthy was not entirely wrong. The evils of communist governments are also beyond dispute, in my view.

[1]. See the section on "Ongoing Debate", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

[2]. Communist governments have been among the greatest perpetrators of democide, with the PRC at ~76 million citizens murdered, and the USSR at ~62 million citizens murdered in the 20th century. https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

[3]. This man, in his book "Disinformation," wrote that the USSR had more people involved in covert operations and disinformation campaigns than they had active intelligence agents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Mihai_Pacepa

eruditely• 12 years ago

I have seen grugq write that russia/china both have underground culture that are free from prosecution and free to do their own work, and US arrests their own and then has the other two assault it.

probably a misquote but still something akin to that

gnu8• 12 years ago

My heart goes out to these upstanding financial institutions and their shareholders, and I pray that they don't lose too much money compensating their customers for any losses resulting from these attacks.

easytiger• 12 years ago

How mature of you

hell-banned1• 12 years ago

Is stealing from thiefs OK?

lucozade• 12 years ago

Sure. And I'm sure the hackers will check that the isThief flag is set on all the Chase accounts that they mess up. As we all know, real people are never affected by this sort of behaviour, only guys in white rooms stroking cats.

JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Coordinated Cyberattack

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