BOSTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said it has fixed a security bug in Internet Explorer that hackers exploited to attack some customers.

The attacks prompted the German government and security experts to urge people to temporarily stop using the browser.

By Jim Finkle and David Henry

(Reuters) – A financial services industry group warned U.S. banks, brokerages and insurers on Wednesday to be on heightened alert for cyber attacks after Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase experienced unexplained outages on their public websites.

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which is widely known as FS-ISAC, raised the cyber threat level to “high” from “elevated” in an advisory to members, citing “recent credible intelligence regarding the potential” for cyber attacks as its reason for the move.

By Jim Finkle and David Henry

(Reuters) – A financial services industry group warned banks on Wednesday to be on heightened alert for cyber attacks after Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase experienced unexplained outages on their public websites.

The warning, from the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, cited “recent credible intelligence regarding the potential” for cyber attacks as the reason for raising the threat level to “high” from “elevated.”