NYSE Receives Credible Cyber Threat

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Originally published at Fox Business.
The New York Stock Exchange has received a credible threat to its external website, prompting the Big Board to beef up its security and monitoring for a potential cyber attack, FOX Business has learned. The NYSE declined to comment specifically on the threat. “We don't comment on security matters. However, we take security-related issues very seriously,” said NYSE spokesman Richard Adamonis. However, a source familiar with the matter told FOXBusiness.com the iconic Big Board is “on alert for an attack” and has received “credible threats.” The NYSE typically goes on alert “when there is a reasonable assumption of a large imminent threat or capable threat,” the source said. The threats on Thursday center around a potential denial-of-service attack that is strictly focused on the exchange's external website and has nothing to with its trading systems, a separate source said. Continue reading this article
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