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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Iran responded to economic sanctions, cyber-attacks on U.S. banks


cyber-attacks

By a series of hacking attacks, which lasted for several months, are hackers from Iran. About this newspaper The New York Times said James Lewis, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.


American security experts have noted that the target of hackers has been a breach of the bank's web site and interfering in customer service, and not to steal money.

Experts note that the organization of attacks used not individual computers and data centers of cloud services. It is the complexity of the ongoing attacks, according to James Lewis, persuaded the U.S. government and security specialists, it stands for Tehran. And they themselves attack, apparently a response to the imposition of economic sanctions against Iran.

Note that this version in September 2012 aired NBC U.S. television after a series of attacks, killing, among others, were the two biggest U.S. bank JP Morgan and Bank of America, whose customers for a considerable time lost online access to their bank accounts.

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