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UK Defense Ministry Suffers Cyber Attack Via Facebook

In early March, reports surfaced that U.S. and British leaders had mistakenly accepted Facebook friend requests from an illegitimate profile of NATAO Senior Commander and U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis. Similar methods have now led to compromise of information from the U.K. Defense Ministry’s top secret system, AOL Government reports.  Stavridis has been the subject of [...]

The U.K.’s Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey has announced the appointment of a “very senior military officer” to spearhead the government’s cybersecurity operations group. Speaking in the House of Commons earlier this week, Harvey reiterated the government’s focus on cybersecurity, detailed in its Strategic Defence and Security Review, published last year, eWeekEurope reported. The minister [...]

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