We will hack back if you tamper with our shiz, NATO declares to world's black hats

We will hack back if you tamper with our shiz, NATO declares to world's black hats

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NATO's secretary-general has once again declared that members of the alliance will respond with force to cyber-attacks, in line with Article 5 of its founding treaty.


Jens Stoltenberg, the North American and western/northern Europe alliance's main man, wrote in the latest issue of Prospect magazine that "an attack against one ally" would trigger action from every member of the collective-defence grouping.


"For NATO, a serious cyberattack could trigger Article 5 of our founding treaty," wrote the secretary-general. "We have designated cyberspace a domain in which NATO will operate and defend itself as effectively as it does in the air, on land, and at sea. This means ..

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