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Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar

Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwarTwo things...1. Anything that has military, economic or administrative significance becomes fair game in shooting wars, therefore, it doesn't surprize me that countries would be prepared to wage cyber-warfare.2. The alleged admission to the DDoS attacks covered in the story is probably designed to...

Tags: SECURITY, Estonia

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

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

Additional Resources

Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?

What on earth are Facebook doing? Imagine going into a stationery store and buying a Filofax personal organizer and then over time filling it with personal contacts info, photos and notes. You come home one night and it's no longer...

Tags: Facebook, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us again

The news that Chinese and Russian spies have infiltrated the U.S. electrical grid comes just as the Obama Administration is winding down its cybersecurity review. Some interesting data points: A few weeks back, I posted that Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton...

Tags: Network, Deregulation, Spyware, Cybersecurity, Internet, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Measuring Global Denial of Service Attacks

Cyberattacks as a tool for information warfare are not new and have been popular for well over a decade. Their growing prevalence, however, is a disturbing trend that requires study. Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks are one of the most widely crippling elements of many cyberwarfare campaigns. Designed to...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, CCD COE, Distributed Denial Of Service Attack, Security

White papers 2009-03-31

News to know: Wolfram Alpha; iPhone developers; Windows 7; Cyberwar

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' Nova Spivak: Wolfram Alpha is Coming â€" and It Could be as...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar

Radio Free Europe is reporting that an official from Putin's party has publicly stated that he orchestrated the 2007 DDoS Attacks on Estonia. The information security and military communities have been speculating for the past two years about who were the primary actors behind the 2007 Estonian...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Radio Free Europe, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-03-08