Cyber attacks. Germany prepares for election year hacks.
Business newspaper Handelsblatt reports on the rising threat of hacks aimed at elections and the cyber attack simulation conducted by Prof. Klaus Schweinsberg and Prof. Marco Gercke, cybercrime research institute, at the Munich Security Conference. Klaus Schweinsberg and Marco Gercke ran the simulation in which a fictional European nation faces a cyber attack aimed at its elections. The simulation was attended by interior and defense ministers from a host of nations. “It always comes down to whether or not those in positions of power have grappled with how to react immediately in a crisis situation,” the experts said in the article.
