Estonia's defense minister says Kremlin involvement possible in cyberattacks

Estonia's defense minister says Kremlin involvement possible in cyberattacks!
International Herald Tribune
TALLINN, Estonia: Estonia's government on Thursday compared recent cyberattacks against the high-tech nation's Web sites to an act of war and said Russian involvement could not be ruled out.

Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo said about 1 million computers worldwide were used over more than two weeks to cripple government and corporate sites in the Baltic country, which has been locked in a bitter dispute with Moscow over the removal of a Red Army statue from downtown Tallinn.

"We identified in the initial attacks IP numbers from the Russian governmental offices," Aaviksoo told The Associated Press by telephone. "There is not sufficient evidence of a governmental role but it indicates a possibility."

When Estonia first linked the attacks to Russian government computers on May 1, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the accusations, saying the attackers must have used a fake Kremlin IP address to tarnish Russian ... more





Estonia and Russia
A cyber-riot
May 10th 2007
From The Economist print edition

Estonia has faced down Russian rioters. But its websites are still under attack

FOR a small, high-tech country such as Estonia, the internet is vital. But for the past two weeks Estonia's state websites (and some private ones) have been hit by “denial of service” attacks, in which a target site is bombarded with so many bogus requests for information that it crashes.

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