After three weeks of coordinated cyberattacks on Estonian Web sites, NATO has reportedly sent an official to the country to help investigate. About 1 million computers worldwide were reportedly used to conduct the denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government and corporate Web sites, swamping them with so much traffic they were forced to shut down. Traffic has finally begun to taper off this week. The attacks began on April 27, the day the Baltic country removed a Soviet-era war memorial from Tallinn, its capital.
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NATO Enters Estonia-Russia Cyber Battleground
Posted by: Katherine Noyes May 18, 2007 02:37 PMAfter three weeks of coordinated cyberattacks on Estonian Web sites, NATO has reportedly sent an official to the country to help investigate. About 1 million computers worldwide were reportedly used to conduct the denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government and corporate Web sites, swamping them with so much traffic they were forced to shut down. Traffic has finally begun to taper off this week. The attacks began on April 27, the day the Baltic country removed a Soviet-era war memorial from Tallinn, its capital.