Experts warn of election cyberattacks threat in Germany

Concerns are raised in Germany about the safety of the cyber infrastructure, as election day comes closer. Vasilis Chronopoulos

“You can crack everything,” says Sandro Gaycken, a security consultant for government institutions and businesses. “Above all, the hardware and software used by German parties is not as well-protected as the high-security CIA computers.” As the director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), he is considered to be one of the leading specialists for IT high security in Germany. He says that even the federal government is not in good enough shape to withstand cyberattacks.

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