“Online brokerage National Discount Brokers on Thursday gave new
definition to hacker phobia by blaming recent outages at its online
trading site on ‘hacker-like’ attacks by an unnamed Web software
maker.”
“In a statement, the Jersey City, N.J.-based online share dealer
said periodic disruptions since last Thursday to its site were
the result of software incompatibility with products of the outside
company.”
“As a result of what it now said were software conflicts, the
company said its NDB.com site had been subjected to ‘several
instances of hacker-like denial of services’ which precluded some
of the company’s customers from reaching the Web site.”
“NDB said it was mulling legal action against the
company.”