From: The Lithuanian Tribune

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called on the country’s institutions to take a more systematic approach to fighting back cyber attacks.

“According to the head of state, the issue has not received proper attention so far as the cyber security has been taken too primitively,” spokeswoman for the president, Daiva Ulbinaitė, told journalists after a meeting on cyber security at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday.

The meeting was attended by the vice-ministers of transport and communications and foreign affairs as well as representatives of the Ministries of National Defence, the Interior, the Communications Regulatory Authority and the National Audit Office, the Presidential Office said in a statement.

Two week ago, Lithuanian news website delfi.lt came under cyber attacks, which lasted until last Saturday, after a publication that votes had been allegedly bought in Lithuania for the Russian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest.

The police launched a pre-trial investigation into the matter. The website also turned to the Communications Regulatory Authority in order to prevent similar attacks in the future.