DHS Issues Warning, U.S. Financial Institutions Face Possible Terrorist Cyber Attack

The warning was issued after "officials" noticed a posting on a "Jihadist Web site" calling for an attack on United States internet-based stock market and banking sites in December.

There is no information corroborating the threat according to Russ Knocke, spokesman from the DHS. Adding that the alert was issued "as a routine matter and out of an abundance of caution. There is no immediate threat to our homeland at this time."

This comes at a time of increasing economic crisis throughout the United State and the world and in addition to reports that the World Bank has been allegedly hacked and has been under siege since last April.

Though the World Bank is denying the story, up to as many as 40 servers may have been compromised according to the report.

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China Stealing Secrets and Accessing U.S. Lawmaker Computers

In response to trusted United States lawmakers Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, a senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, China says it is incapable of launching such an attack.

Not only is this absurd, but China has a long history of being caught with their hand in the cookie jar, most notably during the Clinton administration in the past.

The allegations are the latest in a series of cyber security problems blamed on China. Reports last year cited officials in Germany, the United States and Britain as saying government and military networks had been broken into by hackers backed by the Chinese military.

The Pentagon acknowledged last month at a closed House Intelligence committee meeting that its vast computer network is scanned or attacked by outsiders more than 300 million times each day. Most of these attacks have been said to come from China, or Chinese sources.

The real question to be asking here is, are we currently fighting an unconventional war with China? If not perhaps we should be taking proactive steps to protect ourselves.

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