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Business Latest: NATO on cyberattacks

For probably the first time in history, an international military alliance has been declared in cyberspace.
A person man uses a laptop. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa/AP)
A person man uses a laptop.

NATO: (CYBER)ATTACK AGAINST ONE IS (CYBER)ATTACK AGAINST ALL: For probably the first time in history, an international military alliance has been declared in cyberspace. NATO said last week that member states will apply the alliance’s mutual-defense obligation to large-scale attacks in cyberspace, not just in the physical world. But how will NATO determine whether an attack is government-sponsored? And in an era where European nations and the United States are disproportionately the targets of cyber-attacks, how will NATO react if it determines that China or Russia has struck the United States or, for that matter, Estonia—a Baltic state that Russia attacked in cyberspace in 2007? Read more 

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