Following the massive cyberattacks against the Baltic country of Estonia in April, NATO on Thursday asserted that cyberdefense must now be a priority among member nations. Several defense ministers, including Estonia’s, raised the issue during a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and all 26 alliance members agreed that a new focus on cyberdefense was critical to protect against similar attacks in the future. Roughly a million computers worldwide were used to conduct the denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government and corporate Web sites.
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NATO Rallies to Thwart Global Cyber Bullies
Posted by: Katherine Noyes June 14, 2007 03:59 PMFollowing the massive cyberattacks against the Baltic country of Estonia in April, NATO on Thursday asserted that cyberdefense must now be a priority among member nations. Several defense ministers, including Estonia’s, raised the issue during a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and all 26 alliance members agreed that a new focus on cyberdefense was critical to protect against similar attacks in the future. Roughly a million computers worldwide were used to conduct the denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government and corporate Web sites.