NYSE Outage May Have Been A Cyber Attack: John McAfee

Though three major American corporations, including New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), cited technical issues for last week’s outage, security expert John McAfee believes some could nevertheless be tempted to attribute the incidents to a cyber-attack.

On July 8^th, three major American corporations suffered technical difficulties at the same time, in what Wired has termed a cyber-armageddon.

McAfee believes timing of the NYSE incident is suspicious

As highlighted by ValueWalk, on July 8^th, the New York Stock Exchange elected to close trading, causing a four-hour suspension of transactions. In a four-hour period, the NYSE...