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Industry doesn’t accept cyber espionage as a real problem – expert

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Published 30 June, 2009, 15:10

Russian internet-blogger and science-fiction author, Dmitry Glukhovsky, and cyber security consultant for “Control Risks”, Ian McGurk, discussed the dangers of online espionage and DDoS-attacks with RT.

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