Large-Scale Website Attacks Due to Unrest in Estonia

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Mikko Hyppönen writes on the F-Secure "News from the Lab" Blog:

[snip]

Quoting CNN:

"Police arrested 600 people and 96 were injured in a second night of
clashes in Estonia's capital over the removal of a disputed World War Two
Red Army monument ... Russia has reacted furiously to the moving of the
monument ... Estonia has said the monument had become a public order menace
as a focus for Estonian and Russian nationalists."

We're now seeing large attacks against websites run by Estonian goverment.
Some of the sites are unreachable. Others are up, but do not allow any
traffic from foreign IP addresses.

Here's the status as we saw it on Saturday at 15:00 GMT.


[snip]

More:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00001181

- - ferg


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