Cyber warfare in Estonia

[Xenocrates]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2081438,00.html

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Was it the Russians or a company looking to get rich by providing E-services to Estonia's government?

The article goes heavy on pointing the finger at Russia but no evidence is provided.

 

[Catharsis]

It's the retaliation! They must have gone one Soviet Russia joke too far.

 

[Peuri]

The websites of the Finnish National Broadcasting Company YLE and STT ( a Finnish news agency) have also been attacked during the week. Could these incidents be connected Although I don't know why they would, since if I remember correctly Finland's leaders, as usual, didn't say much about the bonze statue -incident.

 

[Babbler]

I doubt it is work of the Russian state. Most likely, it just a unaffilated groups of bitter ethnic Russian hackers both within Estonia, Russia and the wider world, trying to stir up trouble. It's like wikipedia done by al-Qaeda.

Welcome to the 21st century.

 

[innonimatu]

I doubt it is work of the Russian state. Most likely, it just a unaffilated groups of bitter ethnic Russian hackers both within Estonia, Russia and the wider world, trying to stir up trouble. It's like wikipedia done by al-Qaeda.

Welcome to the 21st century.

And it appears you were proven right:
Student fined for attack against Estonian Web site

A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined for participating in a cyberattack that paralyzed Estonian Web sites and soured the country's relationship with Russia, a government official said Thursday.

Dmitri Galushkevich used his home PC to launched a denial-of-service attack that knocked down the Web site for the political party of Estonia's prime minister for several days, said Gerrit Maesalu, spokesman for the Northeast District Prosecutor's Office in Tallinn, Estonia's capital. Galushkevich must pay 17,500 kroons ($1,642).

Galushkevich is the only person who has been convicted since the cyberattack in April and May 2007 crippled the Web sites of banks, schools, and government agencies.
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"He [Galushkevich] wanted to show that he was against the removal of this bronze statue," Maesalu. "At the moment, we don't have any other suspects."

But police are still trying to find others who may have been involved in the attacks, although the investigation is complicated since the attackers are likely outside Estonia, Maesalu said.