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| Computer in Merkel's Office Hit by Cyberattack | |
| 2015-06-15 | |
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's legislative office was hit by a cyberattack that targeted the country's lower house of parliament in May, the Bild newspaper reported on Sunday. The daily, which did not cite its sources, said the cyberattack was broader and greater than originally anticipated and the Bundestag struggled to control it. The attack "infected" one of the computers in Merkel's Bundestag office. Bild said the computer was one of the first on which the Trojan Horse-style attack was discovered. According to the newspaper, the discovery was made on Friday, with officials finding the Trojan Horse software on five computers in the Bundestag. A front man for Merkel's conservative CDU bloc told the newspaper he could "not confirm nor deny" the report. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the cyberattack. Merkel's official website, as well as those of the government and the Bundestag, were blocked in January in an online attack claimed by a pro-Russian group. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 So, gaming or p0rn at work? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-06-15 09:25 |