Estonia Urges Firm EU, NATO Response to Cyber Attacks

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

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Via The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Estonia has urged its allies in the European Union and NATO to take firm
action against a new mode of warfare that has been unleashed on the Baltic
state in a bitter row with Russia over a Soviet war memorial:
cyber-attacks.

"Taking into account what has been going on in Estonian cyber-space, both
the EU and NATO clearly need to take a much stronger approach and cooperate
closely to develop practical ways of combatting cyber-attacks," Estonian
Defence Minister Jaak Aaviksoo told AFP Tuesday.

"Considering the scale of damage and the way these cyber-attacks have been
organised, we can compare them to terrorist activities," Aaviksoo said a
day after raising the new mode of warfare at talks with his fellow EU
defence ministers in Brussels.

Estonian institutional websites have been under regular cyber-attack since
the end of last month, when a row blew up with Russia over the removal from
central Tallinn of a memorial to Soviet Red Army soldiers.

Officials in Estonia, including Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, have claimed
that some of the cyber-attacks, which forced the authorities in the Baltic
state to temporarily shut down websites, came from Russian government
computers, including in the office of President Vladimir Putin.

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More:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Estonia-urges-firm-EU-NATO-response-t
o-new-form-of-warfarecyberattacks/2007/05/16/1178995207414.html

- - ferg

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