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The Estonia Cyber War: One Year Later

Robert Vamosi writes on the C|Net "D3F3NS3 1N D3PTH" Blog:

One year ago, the Estonian government moved a war memorial honoring Russian-Estonians who died fighting the Nazis, a move that may have triggered what some believe is the first instance of a sustained, international cyberwar.

Now, Gadi Evron, a security evangelist for Beyond Security who was in Estonia at the time of the attacks, has revisited the events with an article in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and reprinted here [.pdf] online.

Evron said what could be described as a "flash mob" created the disturbances in the Estonian Internet during May 2007. "Not only did the cyber riot start almost simultaneously with the actual riots, fresh posts in the Russian-language blogosphere continuously appeared with new targets and instructions. These details suggest that the cyberattackers reacted to Estonian defenses," he wrote.

posted by Fergie @ 5/20/2008 04:45:00 PM