Putin Orders FSB to Create Cyberdefense System

22 January 2013 | Issue 5051

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President Vladimir Putin tasked the Federal Security Service with creating a unified system for the "detection, prevention and liquidation" of cyberattacks on government websites in an official decree published Monday.

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Putin Orders FSB to Create Cyberdefense System