German government under sustained cyber attack

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German government under sustained cyber attack

'Technically sophisticated' and long planned.

Germany's government is marshalling its defences against a powerful cyber attack that lawmakers said had breached the foreign ministry's computer network and whose origins were still unclear. The head of a parliamentary oversight panel said the attack was continuing, and security officials were ...

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