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After Estonia Cyber Attacks, U.S. Frets Over Potential Cyber War

Karen Krebsbach writes on U.S. Banker:

The U.S. Treasury Department's decision to sponsor an industry-wide exercise this fall for the financial-services sector to test its ability to respond to a pandemic crisis, such as a bird flu outbreak, is taking on a different, and more sinister tone, in light of the cyber attack that nearly disabled Estonia-including the country's biggest bank-in late May.

The heavily wired Baltic country has been subject to massive and coordinated cyber attacks on Web sites of the government, financial institutions, telecommunications companies, Internet-service providers and news organizations.

posted by Fergie @ 6/29/2007 12:47:00 PM