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France prepares $2 billion ‘cyber war’ defense upgrade
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/france-prepares-2-billion-cyber-war-defense-upgrade/
France prepares $2 billion ‘cyber war’ defense upgrade
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 16:26 EST
France will soon launch a 1.5-billion-euro ($2 billion) plan to defend itself against “cyber war” as a strategic priority, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday.
The project, to be launched “in a few weeks”, will be written into the French military budget over the next five years, Le Drian told a cyber-security forum in the northern city of Lille.
“The scale needs to be changed” given that cyber attacks against French defence ministry organs have quadrupled in two years, he said.
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“In 2013 we recorded 780 significant computer incidents within the defence ministry, against 195 in 2011,” he said.
unhappycamper comment: It appears France is going to hide their spying apparatus in the same place we do: the military budget.
