McAfee Says NYSE Outage May Have Been a Cyber Attack; Anonymous Brags
The NYSE, flights of United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal all suffered from “technical glitches” on July 8, the same day that the Chinese Stock market plummeted. The U.S. government denies a cyber attack, but a McAfee security expert believes the timing of the incidents is suspicious. Three major American corporations suffered technical difficulties at the same time, in what Wired has called a cyber-armageddon. The New York Stock Exchange claimed the problem that caused a halt to stock trading for more than three hours was an “internal technical issue” and “not the result of a cyber....
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