NYSE Receives Credible Cyber Threat

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 here.