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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