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Cyberattack in Estonia -- What it Really Means
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-05-29 13:41:56 589
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By Robert Vamosi Special to CNET News.com
Arbor Networks' Jose Nazario takes stock of the denial-of-service attack--and the wider implications.
On April 27, officials in Estonia relocated the "Bronze Soldier," a Soviet-era war memorial commemorating an unknown Russian who died fighting the Nazis. The move incited rioting by ethnic Russians and the blockading of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. The event also marked the beginning of a large and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack on several Estonian national Web sites, including those of government ministries and the prime minister's Reform Party.
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