China can flick EU ‘kill switch’ — Europe mulls cyberattack risk

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

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.