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Anonymous Lives Up To Promise, Attacks Greek Central Bank, Threatens Other Banks

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Mark Melin
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The hacker group Anonymous is entering the second phase of a plan to attack central banks worldwide, starting the front by attacking a weak economic link: Greece.

Anonymous Lives Up To Promise, Attacks Greek Central Bank, Threatens Other Banks

Greek central bank repels anonymous

The Bank of Greece successfully repelled a denial of service attack on its technical infrastructure today, Reuters first reported. "The attack lasted for a few minutes and was successfully tackled by the bank's security systems. The only thing that was affected by the denial-of-service attack was our web site," an unnamed central bank source told Reuters, which first reported...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.