http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/184943/
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 19, 2014
German government and business computers are coming under increasing cyber
attacks every day from other states' spy agencies, especially those of
Russia and China, Germany's domestic intelligence (BfV) chief said on
Tuesday, Nov 18, according to Reuters.
Addressing a cybersecurity conference in Berlin, Hans Georg Maassen said
that of an estimated 3,000 daily attacks by hackers or criminals on German
government systems, around five were the handiwork of intelligence
services. The latter are so sophisticated that they can easily be
overlooked, he added.
"We have seen that there are ever more frequent attacks by foreign
intelligence agencies on the German government IT infrastructure," he
said.
These occur most frequently, Maasen said, before major international
meetings such as a G20 conference, where government advisers might receive
a virus email purporting to be from another country's negotiators.
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