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Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, trains its own hackers -- and it's not the only effort to defend a nation from denial-of-service attacks like the assaults on Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008. Governments around the world are preparing for a new kind of war.
Soldiers, and computer experts, at the NATO Communications Services Agency in Mons, Belgium.
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Denial-of-service attacks can potentially bring down computer networks at nuclear facilities ...
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... and even airports.
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The German chancellery came under attack by software aimed at tapping sensitive information -- launched from a province of China, according to an official German report.
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NATO has worried about cyberwarefare since at least 2007, when Estonia became the first NATO member to suffer a virtual assault.
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