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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10376

12 May 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/syria
Parliament Facebook page target of attack

Brussels, 11/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - During the night of Tuesday 10 to Wednesday 11 May, the European Parliament (EP) Facebook page was the target of a cyber-attack by supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after the EU had just approved sanctions against 13 of his close associates. Confirmation of the attack, AFP writes, was given by an EP spokesman. The attack had no effect on Parliament servers in Strasbourg. “We are investigating what happened since it would appear that...

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