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Spotlight UNITED STATES EUROPE Issue dated 21/06/2017

NSA, GCHQ look to private sector for cyber-offensive firepower

US and European intelligence service strategists are trying to adapt to cyber-attacks © Ulrich Baumgarten

At a time when Washington is in a state of political chaos, the NSA is trying to remodel the US's cyber-offensive doctrine so that it can retaliate to attacks or even carry out preventive attacks, a new approach for which [...] (566 words)

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