Re: Behind The Estonia Cyber Attacks

["Viktor Larionov" <viktor.larionov () salva ee>]

Exactly.
Neither does our local press here, they took it all serious.

vik

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Subject:        Re: [funsec] Behind The Estonia Cyber Attacks
Author: "Gadi Evron" <ge () linuxbox org>
Date:           07th March 2009 5:33:53 

They don't understand Russian humour.

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> Via Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty.
>
> [snip]
>
> In the spring of 2007, a cyberattack on Estonia blocked websites and
> paralyzed the country's entire Internet infrastructure. At the peak of the
> crisis, bank cards and mobile-phone networks were temporarily frozen,
> setting off alarm bells in the tech-dependent country -- and in NATO as
> well.
>
> The cyberattacks came at a time when Estonia was embroiled in a dispute
> with Russia over the removal of a Soviet-era war memorial from the center
> of Tallinn. Moscow denied any involvement in the attacks, but Estonian
> officials were convinced of Russia's involvement in the plot.
>
> A new blog post [1] for Ekho Moskvy makes a startling revelation about the
> 2007 attacks. The post, by journalist Nargiz Asadova -- a columnist for RIA
> Novosti based in Washington, and an Ekho Moskvy host -- describes a March 3
> panel discussion between Russian and American experts on information
> warfare in the 21st century.
>
> Asadova, who was moderating the discussion, asked why Russia is routinely
> blamed [2] for the cyberattacks in Estonia and Georgia, where government
> sites were seriously disrupted during the August war.
>
> She might not have been expecting the answer she got from Sergei Markov, a
> State Duma Deputy from the pro-Kremlin Unified Russia party: "About the
> cyberattack on Estonia... don't worry, that attack was carried out by my
> assistant. I won't tell you his name, because then he might not be able to
> get visas."
>
> Markov, a political analyst who has long been one of Vladimir Putin's
> glibbest defenders, went on to explain that this assistant happened to be
> in "one of the unrecognized republics" during the dispute with Estonia and
> had decided on his own that "something bad had to be done to these
> fascists." So he went ahead and launched a cyberwar.
>
> "Turns out it was purely a reaction from civil society," Markov reportedly
> said, adding ominously, "and, incidentally, such things will happen more
> and more."
>
> In Russia, Markov's confession is all over the blogosphere, but has yet to
> be picked up by the Russian media.
>
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.rferl.org/Content/Behind_The_Estonia_Cyberattacks/1505613.html
>
> Hat-tip: Intelfusion
> http://intelfusion.net/wordpress/?p=544
>
>
> - - ferg
>
> [1] http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/n_asadova/576689-echo/
> [2]
> http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgian_Government_Accuses_Russia_Of_Cyberwar
> /1190477.html
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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