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- US focusing on Estonia cyberattack in upcoming wargames
- It seems the US government is taking the cyberattacks on Estonia quite seriously. Earlier this week, US-CERT sent experts to Estonia to learn more about the attacks. At the same time, the Defense Department has been getting ready for cyber wargames, Ars Technica reports.The government is setting up...
- Tags: International, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- US-CERT heads to Estonia to help, learn about cyberattack
- US-CERT Computer Emergency Response Team is headed to Estonia to do a little forensics on the well-reported cyberattack that took out much of the small country's infrastructure, InfoWorld reports.Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and telecommunications with DHS, said: "We are sending someone from our organization ... to help...
- Tags: International, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- It looks more likely that Russia cyberbombed Estonia
- The recent attacks on Estonia's business and government computer networks may have been a retaliatory gesture, generated in Russia, reports the Associated Press.Over 1 million computers worldwide were affected by the attacks since Estonia moved a Soviet-era war memorial from downtown Tallinn. The attacks began after the removal of the...
- Tags: International
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Estonia reeling from massive cyberattack from Russia
- Estonia reeling from massive cyberattack from RussiaJust goes to showThat any country with sufficient resources can disable another. Nothing new in that. That the Russians did it first doesn't make the rest of the world any holier. More particularly, with DNS root-servers all in *one* country, the entire world is...
- Tags: Hacking, Estonia, cyberattack
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- Estonia reeling from massive cyberattack from Russia
- It's no surprise that US and UK computers are the target of numerous cyberattacks. But Estonia? Who would have figured? Yet, The Washington Post reports, the heavily wired Baltic country "has been subject in recent weeks to massive and coordinated cyber attacks on Web sites of the government, banks, telecommunications...
- Tags: Security, Intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Hactivism or information warfare?
- Just as the term "cyber terrorism" gets linguists all riled up, "information warfare" is sure to elicit the wrath of security pundits and bloggers alike. While I will be the first to acknowledge that cyber terrorism is a problematic term (no loss of life or limb from shutting down an...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, information warfare, Estonia
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- IT services spending in Baltic states up 12.7% in 2005
- Demand for IT services is on the rise in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. According to IDC, spending jumped by nearly 20% in 2004 to $184.76 mln and preliminary data points to a rise of 12.7% in 2005, reaching approximately $208 mln. Latvia was the largest of the markets, representing an...
- Tags: Latvia, IT services, information technology, Estonia
- Blog posts 2006-02-08
- Estonia's wired world
- Estonia's wired worldBalkans?Estonia is on the Baltic Sea; the Balkans ara way south.
- Tags: Estonia, Balkans
- Discussion threads 2006-01-16
- Estonia's wired world
- Despite decades of repressive Soviet government and moribund bureaucracy, Estonia has arrived as the most wired country in the Balkans and Europe, reports the Economist. Tallinn, Estonia's capital has embraced the wireless world of broadband to connect with government agencies, send a text message to pay a parket ticket (goes...
- Tags: Estonia, Tallinn
- Blog posts 2006-01-12
- Wow Estonia
- After posting about the Estonian business process hacking at BizWire the 4th most popular source of readers of this security blog is Estonia! Google is amazing. Oh, alright I think MSN is used by several people a month to find this blog. But tell me, what are the other search...
- Tags: search engine
- Blog posts 2005-11-08
- Estonia pulls off nationwide Net voting
- Estonia pulls off nationwide Net votingThe problem remainsAfter all, political operatives could, under this system "rent" cards for voting purposes. The cards can even be stolen and with the proper official cooperation, forged. Furthermore, Estonia is still trusting a computer program to insure the secrecy of the vote....
- Tags: ID card, Estonia, election official
- Discussion threads 2005-10-17
- From Russia with spam
- From Russia with spamuuuummmmm... if you wont do it, i'll say iti think the russians made an excellent first step in spam prevention and eradication last month when one of their countries top spammers was murdered in his home.perhaps vigilante justice IS the best way to go... valisRussia?Estonia is part...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, Estonia
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Estonia, China and Morocco led the world in outsourcing growth in 2003
- The Economist quotes the OECD data on outsourcing growth from 2002 to 2003. Estonia, China, Morocco and Ethiopia demonstrated the highest growth in 2003. There were 1.5 mln service jobs outsourced abroad from developed countries. By 2008 that number will have risen to 4.1 mln.
- Tags: Estonia, Morocco
- Blog posts 2005-07-06
- Baltic enterprise application software market to grow 17% in 2004
- Spending on Enterprise Application Software in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, expanded by 17.7% YTY to $18.28 million in license and maintenance revenue. According to IDC, this figure should jump by 17% in 2004, as small and medium-sized businesses invest in complex solutions both to meet new...
- Tags: EAS
- Blog posts 2004-11-16
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- Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare
- Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfareTaiwanI think an impetus for Red Flag Linux wqas the inability of Beijing to secure Windows against Taiwan, but my memory might be faulty.Cyberwar? You must be kiddind...I thought that word "war" is applicable for some serious events that have catastrophic consequences...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Hacking, Saakashvili
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare
- As widely reported (ZDNet's Zero Day blog summarizes the events as well as anyone), Georgia government websites site down were attacked in just about the time frame as Russia's Prague 1968-style attack of the country. The question is, who's responsible? The Russian government appears to have managed to keep its...
- Tags: Georgia, Attack, Russian Government, VNUnet, Government, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft case
- A federal grand jury returned indictments today on 11 defendants in one of the largest hacking and online theft cases ever. The Department of Justice charged 11 individuals from around the world with stealing 40 million credit and debit card numbers, cracking the networks of nine retailers and stealing an...
- Tags: Belarus, Hacking, Debit Card, Ukraine, Debit Card Number, Unauthorized Access Device, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- ID theft bust: Indictments are nice, more arrests much nicer
- Praise be, big time. Almost. The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorneys offices in Massachusetts and California announced today that they have indicted 11 individuals as part of an international ring of hackers (really, crackers) who purloined at least 40 million credit card and debit...
- Tags: U.S., Network, Debit Card, U.S. Department Of Justice, Ukraine, Identity Theft, Hacking, Financial Services, Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
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