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The threat was made against the NYSE Web site, not the trading platform, which is used to process billion of share transactions each day. It was not possible to verify the origin of the threat.
Anonymous, reported to be a loose-knit group of hackers, has attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies and media in the past for its protest attacks on corporate and government websites.
The publicized action against the NYSE website was intended as a show of solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement that is holding a running demonstration in Zuccotti Park near the NYSE building in Lower Manhattan.
So-called hactivists use distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, in which they get supporters to crash the websites of their targets by overwhelming the servers with traffic.
The Anonymous group launched DOS attacks against Visa and MasterCard because the group thought the companies were hostile to Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange.
(Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)
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Article source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/228584/20111010/hacker-threat-to-nyse-website-comes-to-nothing-nyse.htm
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