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On Monday 1st July 2024, the government will continue to implement its strategy for testing the warning and information system for the population by carrying out monthly tests of the siren network and the GouvAlert mobile application.

An unannounced test of the zonal SMS alert took place on Wednesday 26 June 2024 in the municipalities of Weiler-la-Tour, Roeser, Bettembourg, Frisange, Dudelange, Kayl and Rumelange.

On 19 and 20 June 2024, the Haut-Commissariat à la protection nationale (HCPN), including its Cybersecurity and GOVCERT departments, the Directorate-General for Energy of the Ministry of the Economy, as well as the Institut luxembourgeois de Régulation (ILR), the LHC/CIRCL, the CTIE and the company Creos took part in the 7th edition of "Cyber Europe".

On Monday 3 June 2024, the government will continue to implement its strategy for testing the warning and information system for the population by carrying out monthly tests of the siren network and the GouvAlert mobile application.

On 24 May 2024, a large Singaporean delegation led by the Permanent Secretary (Sustainability and Environment), Stanley Loh, visited the Office of the High Commission for National Protection in Senningen.

Following the heavy rainfall on 17.5.2024, the "bad weather" assessment unit met several times under the chairmanship of the High Commission for National Protection.

On the 14th of May 2024, the High Commissioner for National Protection, Guy Bley, welcomed the Consul of Spain in Luxembourg, Beltrán de Águeda Corneloup, and the Consul of the United States, Kendra Arbaiza-Sundal, at the National Crisis Centre in Senningen.

An unannounced test of the zonal SMS alert took place on Monday 29 April 2024 in the municipalities of Hesperange, Luxembourg, Niederanven, Sandweiler, Schuttrange and Walferdange.

Following the terrorist attack of 22 March 2024, the Anti-terrorism Coordination Group (GCT) met at the request of the Prime Minister to assess the threat situation on the national territory.

An unannounced test of the zonal SMS alert took place on Friday 22 March 2024 in the municipalities of Differdange, Pétange, Käerjeng, Sanem, Bourscheid, Tandel, Diekirch, Erpeldange-sur-Sûre, Ettelbruck, Schieren, Colmar-Berg and Bettendorf.

Following a DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyber attack aimed at preventing access to several Luxembourg websites, a crisis unit was convened in the afternoon, chaired by the Minister for Digitalisation, Stéphanie Obertin.

Since the morning of 21 March 2024, several government websites have been the target of a cyber DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. A DDOS attack consists of saturating the computer resources of targets.