No surprise that hackers found chink in Armscor's armour

17 July 2016 - 02:00
By Arthur Goldstuck

The only thing more surprising than South Africa's main arms procurement organisation being hacked this week was its official response: "Armscor can confirm at this stage that information accessed does not contain sensitive and classified content." The statement was made despite Armscor not knowing the full extent of the breach - it was awaiting analysis from "a team of cyber experts [that] has been convened to conduct a forensic analysis to determine the full extent of this incident".

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