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This paper describes the risks that cyber threats pose to national security. According to the authors, cyber attacks are anonymous and can be state or non-state controlled. It is therefore almost impossible to achieve verifiable and provable attribution of who is attacking. Additionally, cyber attacks are difficult to detect, in some cases even persisting unnoticed for many years. For this reasons, this paper encourages to adopt cyber-crime legislation along the lines of the European Council's Convention of Cyber-crime on the national level and it suggests to place a priority on cyber diplomacy bot at multilateral and bilateral levels.