Facebook warns users of potential state-sponsored attacks

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http://www.networkworld.com/article/2994359/facebook-warns-users-of-potential-state-sponsored-attacks.html

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
Oct 18, 2015

Facebook will now warn people if it has a strong suspicion an account is 
being targeted by a nation-state.

The social networking service already takes steps to secure accounts that 
may have been compromised but has decided to directly alert users of the 
type of attack that's under way, wrote Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief 
security officer.

Since state-sponsored attacks can be more sophisticated "having an account 
compromised in this manner may indicate that your computer or mobile 
device has been infected with malware," he wrote.

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