Russia Accused of Unleashing Cyberwar to Disable Estonia

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

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Via The Guardian.

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A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of
Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is
causing alarm across the western alliance, with NATO urgently examining the
offensive and its implications.

While Russia and Estonia are embroiled in their worst dispute since the
collapse of the Soviet Union, a row that erupted at the end of last month
over the Estonians' removal of the Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in
central Tallinn, the country has been subjected to a barrage of cyber
warfare, disabling the websites of government ministries, political
parties, newspapers, banks, and companies.

NATO has dispatched some of its top cyber-terrorism experts to Tallinn to
investigate and to help the Estonians beef up their electronic defences.

"This is an operational security issue, something we're taking very
seriously," said an official at NATO headquarters in Brussels. "It goes to
the heart of the alliance's modus operandi."

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More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2081438,00.html

- - ferg

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