CUNA on Friday warned credit unions to be aware of thepossibility of widespread Distributed Denial of Service attacks onMay 7.
|The trade group cited Internet “chatter” about the attacks inits warning and said credit unions are included in the threats totake down online banking webs
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The warning even included telling credit unions to “consideralerting members about the Internet threat for May 7 and askingmembers to execute critical online banking business on a differentday or come into the credit union office.”
|They also were advised to alert call centers and their networkstaff.
|Tom Nohelty, CUNA's vice president of information technology,said in the announcement, “It is not possible to assess theveracity of the threat at this time, but it is important thatcredit unions be aware and prepared at all times.
|“Also, some of the largest credit unions are included in a listof targets for the purported May attack so heightened awareness iswarranted.”
|At least two credit unions – Patelco CU in California and University FCU in Texas – were hitin recent attacks in which floods of external communicationrequests overloaded servers and disrupted service.
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