It's been down since 11:32.  They are saying its a tech issue and the FBI has confirmed they are not needed.

 

The amount of data that runs through that place is crazy.  This seems to be a rather long outage though.

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Considering even trading is done my computers now, the bandswidth has got to be almost infinite

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Considering even trading is done my computers now, the bandswidth has got to be almost infinite.

These aren't ordinary computers though, these are supercomputers.

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There were tweets around midnight last night from Anonymous that said, "Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street...we can only hope."

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Funny how Wall Street, United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal computers all went down today........

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Yea they're saying no hacking involved but that's a lot of coincidences

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It sure smelled like a hacker attack, and at least one cyber security expert indicated on CNN that North Korea was taking credit for the Wall Street system crashing.

 

We'll probably never know the truth because even if these were attacks, those in control will never admit it happened.  They were already dismissing it yesterday as pure coincidence. 

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Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

North Korea just announced they cured AIDS, Ebola, and Cancer, too.

 

And I also can't recall the last time I trusted CNN for "news," either.  Probably HLN in the 90s.

 

I can't fault anyone for being skeptical, though.  There's so much misinformation we're fed by our so-called "leaders" today in the name of preserving a self-fulfilling "legacy."

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"You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud."

The one thing North Korea actually does well is hacking.  They have an entire government agency dedicated to it, so don't underestimate their ability to pull something like this off.  Look at the mess they created going after Sony.

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Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

The one thing North Korea actually does well is hacking.  They have an entire government agency dedicated to it, so don't underestimate their ability to pull something like this off.  Look at the mess they created going after Sony.

Except that, despite the US government's insistence that North Korea hacked Sony, lots of computer experts don't think that Kim Jong-Un had much of anything to do with it. The timing was a convenient coincidence for the US government, which loves nothing more than a chance to make North Korea the bad guy, but the evidence generally points to an internal hack on Sony's end. There's an interesting article on it here, which links to other equally interesting, more technical articles on the topic:

 

http://gawker.com/a-lot-of-smart-people-...1672899940

 

Without dragging this into the territory of the political forum, all I'll say is that some elements within the US government love it when cyber threats are attributed to North Korea, because it allows them to shift focus away from the much more nefarious Internet activity carried out by the US government itself here at home.

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North Korea last week claimed they found a cave of unicorns.


Seriously. They really did.

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One word: Aliens

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The one thing North Korea actually does well is hacking.  They have an entire government agency dedicated to it, so don't underestimate their ability to pull something like this off.  Look at the mess they created going after Sony.

 

While I somewhat agree with you, the internet access in and out of North Korea is easily monitored and logged.  I am also willing to bet that North Korea wants to take credit for the disruption only for propaganda purposes.  I could be wrong and it is possible for them to do something like this, but I don't think that it's likely.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Anything is possible, but this wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for them to pull something like this off.  Today it's the NYSE, UAL, and WSJ.  Tomorrow it's the power grid, air traffic control, and water treatment facilities.  We're vulnerable.

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Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Anything is possible, but this wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for them to pull something like this off.  Today it's the NYSE, UAL, and WSJ.  Tomorrow it's the power grid, air traffic control, and water treatment facilities.  We're vulnerable.

 

On that I most certainly agree.  However, if any of your listed functions were attacked, I would suspect Russia before I suspected North Korea.  I'm willing to bet that the majority of the very users of this message board use "virus protection" that is actually written by Russian programmers.

 

In my opinion, "anti-virus" software is an un-needed thing that many have come to use.  If anyone thinks that their "anti-virus" software or "anti-malware" software actually does anything, they are sadly mistaken.  While yes, it may protect you from known viruses out on the internet, there is really no protection from zero days.  Some "anti-virus" software attempts to detect this, but it's pretty much a futile attempt.

 

What the biggest vulnerability is, is the fact that most people use their computer with Administrative privileges.  An attack can take place through email (a common tactic) but it can also be launched by simply visiting a web site or clicking on a link.  Once an attacker has Administrative privileges on a machine, then it's toast.  I've seen how easy it is for people to fall for this, and I've seen many attempts for it to happen to me.

 

That's why Macs and Linux machines are less likely to be infected by a virus.  With my limited exposure to Macs, it's pretty much a Unix type system that restricts a user from performing tasks that requires verification to elevate privileges in order to do something.  Linux does the same thing, but the "popular" distributions are making things more "transparent" and they are falling into the same trap that most Windows users are in.

 

I would bet that most users of this very message board are probably Windows users.  I would also bet that most of them access this board on an account on their systems that has administrative privilege.  I would also bet that they most of them have some kind of "anti-virus" software.

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand binary and those who don't.

What the biggest vulnerability is, is the fact that most people use their computer with Administrative privileges.  An attack can take place through email (a common tactic) but it can also be launched by simply visiting a web site or clicking on a link.  Once an attacker has Administrative privileges on a machine, then it's toast.  I've seen how easy it is for people to fall for this, and I've seen many attempts for it to happen to me.

Which is why my computers all have an administrator account separate from the one I do my work/gaming on.

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