続)BOAシステムトラブル
(豆まきの2月、BOAシステムダウンの続きで、) NYTによれば、Bank of America Suffers Widespread Outages; Hacking Is Not Suspected February 1, 2013, 6:05 pm BOAシステムダウンの原因は、BOAいわく、ハッカーではなく、内部トラブルだと、しかし、American banks have been hit by a wave of computer attacks in recent months. Starting last September, intruders have caused intermittent disruptions to the online banking sites of more than a dozen American banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, PNC, Capital One, Fifth Third Bank, BB&T and HSBC. ここ数ヶ月で複数のUSバンクはシステムアタックを波状的に受けている、Government officials in the United States have accused Iran of orchestrating the attacks in retaliation for American computer attacks against Iran and for Western economic sanctions, but they have offered no proof to back up their claims.政府はイラン系ハッカーの仕業としているが、証拠はない、 A hacker group calling itself Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters has claimed responsibility for the attacks in online posts, but deny that they are affiliated with any particular nation state.ハッカーグループは犯行を認めており、自らをIzz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fightersと称し、どの国にも属さない独立したグループだと、ところで、Twitter Hacked: Data for 250,000 Users May Be Stolen February 1, 2013, 7:49 pm Twitter announced late Friday that it had been breached and that data for 250,000 Twitter users was vulnerable.The company said in a blog post that it detected unusual access patterns earlier this week and found that user information — usernames, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords — for 250,000 users may have been accessed in what it described as a “sophisticated attack.”“This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” Bob Lord, Twitter’s director of information security, said in a blog post. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.”Twitter社は、2/1(金)、250,000ユーザーのアカウントが外部攻撃を受け、中身(PWやアドレスなど)が曝された状態になったと、この攻撃はアマチュアによるものではなく、非常に洗練されたグループによるものだ、おそらく、他の会社も同様のアタックを受けているのではないか、と言うコメントを発表、 これらからするなら、BOAの今回のダウンは、ハッカーによる可能性が高い、しかし、ハッカーであると認めてしまうと、自ら、システムの無防備を認めることにもなり、信頼低下につながりかねなく、簡単に言えない状況、(ソーでなくても、信頼が揺らいでいるのに、) BOAのオンラインシステムでアウトなら、世界中の銀行オンラインシステムはドーなるのだろうか?参考)American Banker Site;Bank of America's (BAC) online and mobile banking halted for nearly half the day on Friday, leaving customers unable to access their accounts. FEB 4, 2013 7:21am ET