Putin orders setting up of anti-hacker defence

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IANS
February 15, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally instructed the Federal Security 
Service (FSB) to promptly set up a unified system to detect and counter 
computer-hacking attacks on Russia's IT resources.

"In the near future, we need to set up a unified system for detecting, 
preventing and defending against computer attacks on Russia's information 
(technology) resources," Putin said at a meeting of the FSB.

He added that the task should be completed as quickly as possible.

Last month, Putin issued a presidential order calling for such a system.

The move came a week after Kaspersky Lab, a Russian computer security company, 
announced it had detected highly sophisticated malware, dubbed "Red October", 
which targeted "diplomatic, governmental and scientific research institutions" 
in eastern Europe and former Soviet republics.

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