Biggest cyber-threat ‘from software failure, not crime’

The biggest-ever cyber-attack exercise ever held in Europe involved more than 2,000 simulated attacks — but the biggest threat does not come from these kinds of incidents, the experts admitted.

Cyber-crime and espionage cost companies and governments up to a $1tn (€793bn) last year and the top eight attacks yielded access to the details of more than 500m people.

Teams from all over the EU co-operated online with a central control centre in testing how they would deal with any number of deliberate attacks and co-operate to help one another.