Government computers increasingly targeted by foreign intelligence services

Government computers increasingly targeted by foreign intelligence services

The computer system of the Federal Government was suspended following a
report of the focus in recent years massive cyber attacks by foreign
intelligence agencies. The going from a confidential management report
of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) shows that the
magazine exists.

According to IT experts identified 1761 as a suspected "deliberate
attack". As the attacker had been identified foreign intelligence
agencies. The "IT-threat situation has worsened again at the end of
2010," Focus quoted from the paper. Already in February, the then
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (CDU) at the Munich security
conference reported that the German government networks will daily four
to five times attacked.