Under siege by hackers, global financial exchanges announced plans on Thursday to team up by forming the industry’s first cyber security commission aimed at protecting global capital markets. Financial exchanges have giant cyber bull’s eyes on them as they represent an opportunity for financially-motivated hackers and ideologically-driven hacktivists alike. Disrupting trading on a major exchange…
Exchanges defend against cyber attack
Bob Greifeld, the chief executive of Nasdaq OMX, has a reputation for getting straight to the point, but the comments he made to a Chicago newspaper last month were even bolder than usual. “We recognise that we’re under constant attack, and by that I mean literally constant attack,” he said….
