Analysis: Russian Gov't Not Behind Estonia DDOS Attacks
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The DDOS attacks against Estonia didn't appear to be a coordinated attack by one entity within Russia
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Will political forces split the internet root? ICANN 2007 Los Angeles The Washington Post reported unwelcome news yesterday for our internet overlords - as internet penetration in Russia grows exponentially, the story claims, Vladimir Putin's allies are increasingly focused on strong-arming blogs and internet news sources in Russia to get their message across, efforts which may extend to the internet root itself.â¦
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President Putin's move to enhance his power in response to a wave of terrorism does not take on the real problem: the corrupt and unreformed security services that produced Putin in the first place, politicians and analysts say.
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The government of Estonia has rejected an application from a Gazprom-backed pipeline project to survey the seabed off its coast. The decision is likely to delay plans to pipe Russian gas directly to Germany.  Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip cited "national issues" as the reason.
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InfoWorld - A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined for participating inÂ a cyberattack that paralyzed Estonian Web sitesÂ andÂ soured the country's relationship with Russia, a government official said Thursday.
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A 20-year-old man gets a modest fine for staging one of the denial-of-service attacks that had the Estonian government contemplating war on Russia. He lives in Estonia.
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A 21-year-old security researcher in Sweden who collected thousands of e-mails and passwords blamed administrators for not using encryption to shield their Internet traffic.
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Semi-organized people just as dangerous as botnets In late April, a Russian-speaking blogger upset with recent events in Estonia posted a series of dispatches calling on like-minded people to attack government servers in that country.â¦
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InfoWorld - May was not a good month for geeks in Estonia. The tiny Baltic republic weathered a&#160;month-long cyberattack&#160;that shuttered Internet servers nationwide. At the height of the crisis, people who wanted to use payment cards to buy bread or gas had to wait, as the onslaught crippled Estonia&#39;s banks.
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Lycos&#39; European anti-spam website was taken down only hours after it went live. The outage appears to be the result of a DDoS attack, most likely initiated by spammers in response to the search engine&#39;s &quot;Make
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Servers that managed global internet traffic have been subjected to a concerted attack by hackers.
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Russian call to Finland to block Chechen rebels' web pages comes after proprietor has already shut down The shut-down of the Chechen rebels' Kavkaz Center website, operating out of Finland, was demanded by the ...
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"These attacks came directly from the IP address of the (Russian) president's office"  Estonia will propose at a meeting of European Union justice ministers next week that the bloc consider cyber attacks as "acts of terror", Estonian Justice Minister Rein Lang said Thursday. via Baku Today
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Cyber warfare's collateral damage You may or may not have picked up the news that Estonia came under cyber-attack in early May. Cyber attacks, usually consisting of multiple denial of service attacks, are pretty bloodless really.â¦
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Justice Minister Rein Lang, one of the survivors of the recent denial-of-service attacks that hit some of the country's websites, concedes the Russian government may not have been responsible after all.
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One of Russia's fastest growing markets, and quite possibly a contributor to stabilizing that country's fickle economy, is cut-rate, self-deploying Trojan horse packages.  This morning, security engineers are sounding the alarm about one such package that customers appear to be purchasing in order to conduct possible identity theft attacks, by leveraging Italian media sites as unsuspecting middlemen...with the equally unsuspecting help of Google.
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A 20 year old Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in cyber attacks against Estonia.