Inteligência estadunidense ajuda bancos contra hackers

Atuação estatal para lidar com essa ameaça. A NSA é o maior orçamento de inteligência dos EUA. Isso é sinal de efetiva preocupação com um problema de significativas dimensões.

Reuters
WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:24pm EDT
 

Exclusive: National Security Agency helps banks battle hackersThe National Security Agency (NSA) logo is shown on a computer screen inside the Threat Operations Center at the NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006.  REUTERS/Jason Reed

The National Security Agency (NSA) logo is shown on a computer screen inside the Threat Operations Center at the NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006.   Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed

 
 (Reuters) – The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S. military, has begun providing Wall Street banks with intelligence on foreign hackers, a sign of growing U.S. fears of financial sabotage.

The assistance from the agency that conducts electronic spying overseas is part of an effort by American banks and other financial firms to get help from the U.S. military and private defense contractors to fend off cyber attacks, according to interviews with U.S. officials, security experts and defense industry executives. Continuar lendo