Homeland Security site: no mention of cyber attack threat

Steve Safran December 1st, 2006

The U.S. government has warned financial instutions of an al Qaeda threat to attack stock trading and banking websites beginning today. The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed the warning to news agencies, and says there is no reason to believe the threat is credible However, the DHS makes no mention of the threat (which is leading many newscasts) on its own website, at least as of this writing. Over at Ready.gov, the DHS site for disaster preparedness, no mention either. We do find out, however, that September 2006 is “National Preparedness Month.”