Army builds secret force on Cyberwar.

Massive attack on the Chancellery and ministries, the Federal Government concern: With a special Army unit wants them to blogs information now to the electronic case meet Ernst. The hackers in uniform should also learn from his network and destroy auszukundschaften

 

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According to information from the blogs, the 76 employees currently in the nascent "Department of information and computer network operations" strictly isolated in the barracks in Tomburg Rheinbach near Bonn and will be until next year to be fully operational.

The hackers in uniform, under the command of Brigadier General Frederick William Kriesel and organizational strategic reconnaissance command belong, to train for the electronic case seriously, as he was last with the cyber-attacks on Estonia and Georgia were.

The soldiers are mainly from the faculties of computer science at the universities of the Bundeswehr recruits. They also deal with the latest methods that intrude into foreign networks, it auszukundschaften them to manipulate or destroy? Digital attacks on foreign servers and networks included.

Parallel the federal government invests largely unnoticed in the improvement of its IT security. After massive attack waves with malicious programs at the federal ministries and the Federal Chancellery in the spring and summer of 2007, the investigators on servers in the Chinese province of Lanzhou back, Bonner, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) on a Cyber Defense Agency, the authorities must be supported.

Already in mid-January, the Federal Cabinet adopted a draft law on "Strengthening of the Federal Information Security". According to him, the BSI receives more money, staff and significantly expanded powers. So it will be the data of the authorities to monitor and automate their specific IT security regulations. So far, the only security experts Bonner recommendations.

In early March, the Bundestag on the Law advice. The "special urgency" arises from "the security needed by government communications," as stated in the memorandum.