The Dutch army is going to fifteen hackers to train them computer networks to attacks. They are trained by the security company Fox-IT. They should become part of a ‘cybermacht’ of 200 soldiers.
The army trains the hackers not only to secure networks, but also to own computers to attack. That the commander of the armed forces, Tom Middendorp, at a symposium said to The Volkskrant. Hans Folmer, the commander of the task force cyber, ” says opposite the newspaper that the hackers ‘enemies the use of their resources is to deny’. “So you shoot a tank, bomb a command post and try to get you in their computers to turn off.”
The hackers, who are from the army and that the army was through an internal competition, sitting at the MIVD, when there are no missions. The MIVD, the Dutch military intelligence service, has the right to itself to automated computer networks to break into.
A year and a half ago, said the Ministry of Defence that it should be possible to self-attacks. The netherlands is one of the few countries that have openly come out that they themselves hackaanvallen want to perform, it is obvious that many other countries are secretly doing.