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Estonia Gets Respite From Denial of Service Attacks

Robert Lemos writes on SecurityFocus:

Denial-of-service attacks on Web sites in the northern European country of Estonia have trailed off three weeks after civil unrest spurred partisan attackers to level massive data floods against government sites.

In an analysis of the last two weeks of attacks, a researcher for network security firm Arbor Networks identified at least 128 separate attacks on nine different Web sites in the country, including 35 attacks on the Web site of the Estonian Police, another 35 attacks on the Web site of the Ministry of Finance, and 36 attacks on the Estonian parliament's, prime minister's, and general government Web sites. Some of the attacks lasted more than 10 hours and topped 95Mbps.

"All in all, someone is very, very deliberate in putting the hurt on Estonia, and this kind of thing is only going to get more severe in the coming years," Jose Nazario, senior security researcher for Arbor Networks, said in the blog post.

posted by Fergie @ 5/18/2007 12:07:00 PM