Friday, May 18, 2007

Estonia Experts Build Defenses After Cyber Attacks

David Mardiste writes for Reuters:

What shook experts was the sophistication of the methods.

"They used very different modern techniques we have not seen before," said information technology lecturer and government adviser Linnar Viik.

The cost of the attack is not yet clear.

"Even Internet service providers do not know how to price it. But key services such as for banks were down for only a short time," Semjonova said.

Estonia has a population of just 1.3 million but nearly 800,000 Estonians use internet banking.

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