I have received a report from European security that there was a
massive cyber attack on French systems 48 hours prior to and during the
Paris attacks.
Amongst other things, the attack took down the French mobile data
network and blinded police surveillance. The attack was not a
straightforward DDOS attack but a sophisticated attack that targeted a
weakness in infrastructure hardware.
Such an attack is beyond the capability of most organizations and
requires capability that is unlikely to be in