BREAK - @metpoliceuk announce that they believe a "small bottle" found on Wednesday was the source of #novichok that killed a British citizen and left a second critically ill in hospital #Skripal#Salisbury
The small bottle was found during search of Charlie Rowley's house in #Amesbury. Scientists at Porton Down ran tests to confirm a substance it contained is #novichok. Further tests will be conducted to establish whether this is the same batch as was used against the #Skripals
Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing, said: “This is clearly a significant and positive development."
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@BritishArmy@RoyalNavy@RoyalAirForce@DefenceHQ@Smyth_Chris A log of IT woe makes grim reading & counters MoD insistence that there’s no issue. One GP I spoke to said stress caused when patient care is endangered by computers freezing, printers malfunctioning & data being lost is worse than deploying to Afghanistan bit.ly/2MrBCI1
@BritishArmy@RoyalNavy@RoyalAirForce@DefenceHQ@Smyth_Chris Doctors say @DefenceHQ data that only 53 “significant event reports” have been recorded out of 4.8 million GP consultations in the past two years fails to capture true picture. This is because only a fraction of the glitches are officially recorded 1/2
BREAK – UK & US issue unprecedented alert against Russia “malicious cyber activity”, accusing Kremlin of “coordinated campaign” to exploit Internet infrastructure – routers, switches, firewalls compromised, millions of machines globally affected
US and UK officials warn of risk of Russia using its position within networks and routers across the world to launch offensive cyber operations - "it is a tremendous weapon in the hands of an adversary"
They say Russia state penetration of Internet routers and networks can be used for espionage and to target high value individuals