China can flick EU 'kill switch' -- Europe mulls cyberattack risk

Recent dismantling of U.S. cyber deterrence adds to threats Brussels faces

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State-sponsored cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are one of the threats the European Union is worried about. (Source photos by Reteurs)

JENS KASTNER

VAREL, Germany -- Taps run dry and looters invade supermarkets, while unmilked dairy cows die of mastitis and pigs suffocate in their pens.

This is a scenario that haunts Mayor Gerd-Christian Wagner when he thinks about preparing for a cyberattack on critical infrastructure in Germany's northwestern agricultural town of Varel.

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