Selex ES warns of growing cyber threat
Industry experts have warned that the oppression of social media in certain nation states should be classified as a form of force, akin to cyber warfare.
The banning of Twitter and other social media sites in Turkey, for example, represents the forcing of a population against its will, and serves to show the government’s effort to control its people, according to experts at Selex ES.
‘In a certain way this is cyber warfare – a form of force,’ Andrea Biraghi, SVP of cyber security and information assurance at the company, told a media briefing at the company’s cyber facility in
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