London hosts cyber-security forum
UK conference aims to find ways to get nations to work together against growing cyber threat.
With nations becoming increasingly susceptible to cyber-attacks, the British government is holding a conference to address the growing threat.
The conference, being held in London’s foreign ministry office – itself a target of a sustained cyber-attack – aims to have nations work together to combat international cyber crime. Rather than the credit-card numbers and online log-ins most people subject report stolen, nations stand to have large amounts of bureaucratic and even security information stolen.
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The British government has seen digital attempts to steal IT, defence and energy data. For the Baltic state of Estonia, the cost of a recent cyber-attack could have been even greater as it saw its entire government structures compromised.
Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee reports from London.