Another Cyber Attack Upon Estonia

16 January 2008

NETWORKWORLD (TALLINN) - The trial for four Russians charged in connection with rioting last year has just started, which has resulted in another cyber attack. The Estonian news site Delfi.ee was under a two-week-long denial of service attack. According to Hillar Aarelaid, manager of Estonia's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) the attack that ended Tuesday, was only slightly disruptive. Unlike the massive May 2007 DOS attack, this one was an ordinary DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack. In an attempt to crash sites, the Russians are to blame for flooding news agency's servers with internet traffic. Security experts have described the online attacks as more of an online riot than coordinated state-sponsored cyber-warfare. (Source Reliability: 9)

Analysis: It is likely that due to continued unrest between Estonia and Russia, and high economic and technological expansion within the internet, that cyber attacks upon Estonia will continue. (Analytic Confidence: 6)