[Outages-discussion] Are sustained DDoS attacks against US banks ongoing?

[Jeremie Chism]

Centurylink is reporting a fiber cut in the Dallas area that is affecting traffic. This was reported per their level 2 tech support 11:20 central time. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 4, 2013, at 11:06 AM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> I can only confirm to the extent that this has been in the media for a long
> time:
> http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/01/web_sites_of_several_maj
> or_ban.html
> http://newyork.newsday.com/business/technology/bank-of-america-jpmorgan-chas
> e-pnc-wells-fargo-dos-cyber-attacks-prompt-federal-warning-1.4367792
> http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/27/business/la-fi-bank-attacks-20120927
> http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-wells-online-outage-20120925,
> 0,1876507.story
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org
> [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:47 AM
> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Subject: [Outages-discussion] Are sustained DDoS attacks against US banks
> ongoing?
> 
> PNC Bank is telling is customers this (per Dave Farber's "IP" list):
> 
>    "A number of banks in the U.S., including PNC, are seeing
>    an unusually high volume of traffic at their Internet
>    connections. This volume of traffic is consistent with threatened
>    cyber attacks on the U.S. banking system and is designed to cause
>    access delays for legitimate internet customers."
> 
> I neither believe nor disbelieve them at this point...but I'd like
> to request independent confirmation of this assertion.  Is there anyone
> on this list who can provide that?
> 
> ---rsk
> _______________________________________________
> Outages-discussion mailing list
> Outages-discussion at outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Outages-discussion mailing list
> Outages-discussion at outages.org
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages-discussion