Russia Accused of 'Cyber War'

Russia accused of 'cyber-war'

JARI TANNER
TALLINN EESTI
18 May 2007

ESTONIA'S government yesterday compared recent cyber- attacks against the nation's websites to an act of war and said Russian involvement could not be ruled out.

Jaak Aaviksoo, the defence minister, said about a million computers worldwide were used over more than two weeks to cripple government and corporate sites in the Baltic country.

Estonia has been locked in a bitter dispute with Moscow over the removal of a Red Army statue from the centre of the capital city of Tallinn.

"We identified the initial attacks [as coming] from Russian governmental offices," Mr Aaviksoo said.

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Walker Bennett, SF Author May 18, 2007, 10:53am EDT

Somehow, I think this is a crock. Even though Talinn had been a major Soviet military area, today it wouldn't be worth the effort for Russia. If they accused the Chinese, that would be a different story. I get over 100 hack attempts a day from sites registered to the mainland Chinese government.

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Donald H. May 18, 2007, 11:06am EDT

These 2 nations......one a giant & one a midget.....continue to point fingers & blame each other for anything & everything. Huge grains of salt are needed to swallow many of the allegations...!

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Michele Scercy May 18, 2007, 11:50am EDT

Hmmmmm

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