EU and US conduct first cybersecurity test

The European Union and US conducted their first joint cybersecurity exercise, in a show of strength aimed at criminals and foreign nations who try to hack into critical computer systems. More than 100 government IT security experts from the 27 EU member states and their counterparts from the US department of homeland security convened in Brussels to simulate crisis scenarios, including attempted cyber espionage and an attack on power grid infrastructure. The aim was to find out where the weaknesses of critical national infrastructure were and how security professionals in different countries could rapidly communicate with each other in the event of an attack.