The FBI is urging network security experts to be on guard against cyber protests timed to coincide with planned demonstrations surrounding this week's meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C. . .
The FBI is urging network security experts to be on guard against cyber protests timed to coincide with planned demonstrations surrounding this week's meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C.

In an alert sent to hundreds of companies that own and operate the nation's most vital information networks, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) yesterday warned that "a small group that intends to disrupt the meetings with a physical attack may use cyber means to enhance the effects of the physical attack or to complicate the response by emergency services to the attack."

"The cyber portion of this attack can be executed by sympathetic hackers or by mercenary hackers seeking publicity," NIPC said. Despite the urgency of the warning, the FBI "has no credible evidence" of an imminent threat, an agency spokesman said.

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