Cyber ​​attack on Bundestag: Software needs to be replaced – Stuttgarter Zeitung

From SIR / dpa 11th June 2015 – 12:47 clock

After the persistent hacker attack on the parliament not the complete computer equipment needs to be replaced but probably. There go mainly to the software.

Previously unknown gunmen attacked the internal data network of the German Bundestag. Photo: AP

Berlin – The dimension of the cyber attack on the parliament prevails four weeks after its discovery still unclear. “It’s essentially software,” said the parliamentary secretary of the Group, Bernhard Kaster (CDU), on Thursday in Berlin. Computer systems and servers should at least be set up again in parts. “But this should not be confused with a complete replacement of the hardware.” From the other side it was on the other hand, it is quite possible that in the end all the hardware must be replaced.

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The Bundestag in the network “Parlakom” infiltrated Trojans are still active, confirmed a Bundestag expert, who requested anonymity, the German Press Agency. In addition, it can not be ruled out that the malicious software appearing again, even after long periods of inactivity.

Apparently flow still Data

NDR, WDR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung” had reported that Parliament should be build entire new computer network. The Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI) has come to the conclusion that the power can no longer be defended against the attack and had to be abandoned. According to a report by “Spiegel Online” still flow data in an unknown direction.

“This is the biggest cyberattack on the Bund, on the German parliament”, Kaster said. The extent to which software had to be replaced, is still open. Kaster warned the opposition of the Left Party and the Greens not to instrumentalize the cyberattack politically. “That’s not an issue that is suitable for politicizing,” he said. There was among factions consensus that the competence of the secret service in the investigation should be integrated more closely than before.

The Council of Elders of Parliament wanted to deal inter alia with the question in the afternoon, if the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) is involved intensively than before in the investigation. The BfV is responsible for counterintelligence. Until now, mainly in opposition to part large concerns regarding a more intensive involvement of the BfV. Background are worried that the constitutional protection could read along internal mails from MPs.

First information came in May

Kaster said in Elders they would also discuss how at a integration of the secret service on the peculiarities of the Parliament could be taken into consideration. According BfV president Hans-Georg Maassen, the first information came to the hacker attack in May from his post. According to him, the BfV has not yet been involved in the investigation.

The parliamentary secretary of the Green Party, Steffi Lemke, said that the Protection of the Constitution is not an authority that makes an assessment in an offense this form. But there was consensus between the political groups that the constitutional protection could act in an advisory capacity -. “In the sense of supporting the IT security of the deputies”

In Elders representing all political groups, among other things, because the panel to to support the President of the Bundestag and eliminate disputes between the factions

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