Will Estonia spur govt spending to mitigate DDoS attacks?
By Rik Turner, Banking Business Review May 21, 2007 Last week saw what, in some circles, was billed as the first example of cyberwar waged by one state on another, as Estonian government agencies, its parliament, big banks and two large newspapers all saw their websites bombarded by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. NATO flew two of its top cyberterrorism experts into the Estonian capital of Tallinn as the country’s security agencies moved to defend sites against the attacks, and questions were raised in meetings between European and Russian leaders in Samara, Russia, on Friday. Ultimately, Estonia had to stop access to all these sites from IP addresses outside the country. Unofficially, most suspicion has fallen on Russia, which is in the throes of a heated dispute with Estonia after the latter removed an important memorial to Russian victory in the Second World War from downtown Tallinn. Certainly the IP addresses of some of the first machines responsible for the attacks
