London Stock Exchange Was 'Under Major Cyberattack' During Linux Switch

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 31, 2011 @07:16PM from the waffles-tasty-waffles dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Computerworld UK: "The London Stock Exchange's new open source trading system may have been hacked last year, according to a report. The alleged attack came as the LSE began the switch over to the Linux-based systems, according to the dates referred to in the Times newspaper. The continued threat of cyber attack has resulted in the LSE keeping a close dialogue with British security services, which this year branded cyber attacks as one of the biggest threats to the country. There were major problems on the exchange on 24 August, when stock prices of five large companies collapsed."

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Re:wtf? LSE is still running .NET based TradElect by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-31 21:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe it was running Mono.
Re:FUD by Eudial · 2011-02-01 00:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Ad banner: Your PC is currently under attack from thousands of viruses! Click here to prevent it from broadcasting it's IP address to hackers.
LSE Employee: Blimey! Ring the secret services! This is cyber war!

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GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
I assume by ThatsNotPudding · 2011-02-01 00:42 · Score: 3, Funny

the byline reads "Steve Ballmer".