NATO battles cyber attacks

Sixty years after it was created, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, NATO, has taken on a mission it could only have imagined back in 1949: The war against cyber attacks.

And while the foot soldiers maybe wearing military fatigues, their weapons, like their defence strategy, are all virtual.

This week in Europeans, a look what NATO is calling one of the biggest threats to national security in the 21st century.

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tags: Internet, NATO