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Helen Corbett

Streeting urges public be ‘alert not alarmed’ amid call to stock up for a crisis

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting warned of the need to be ready in case businesses were hit by cyber attacks (PA) - (PA Wire)

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said he wanted people to be “alert but not alarmed” as he defended against accusations that a call for the public to stockpile days’ worth of food and water for crisis situations was scaremongering.

He also said that cyber incidents such as the critical security flaw in the PHP programming language used by the majority of websites that has left organisations around the world scrambling for a fix will happen “more and more”.

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