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[quote=BITTERSWEET,359281]Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung ordered Bundeswehr officials to develop a cyber force for the military three years ago. It was the birth of Kriesel's unit.

The 76 German Internet warriors are mainly graduates of the computer science departments at the Bundeswehr's internal universities. Last Tuesday General Kriesel gave a proud report on his unit's successes -- including electronic surveillance activities in Afghanistan -- to Inspector General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and the chiefs of staff of the army, air force and navy. Then he discussed his top-secret group. Kriesel's cyber unit will be ready to start operations next year, when it will be asked to demonstrate its capabilities -- in a simulated attack on a real target, known as a penetration test.

The soldiers use the same methods employed by criminals. The future digital warriors learn how to load malicious software onto outside computers, unbeknownst to their users, through e-mail, external media like a CD-ROM disk or simply "while surfing by" on a prepared Internet site. Infected computers can then download additional malicious programs, such as a letter recorder that reads every keystroke on the machine, which can record whole e-mail messages, Internet addresses and passwords. Then program inconspicuously sends the collected entries to a remote computer.

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