Cyber Attacks in Eastern Europe
So apparently Russia and Estonia are at it again, with the former throwing the latter around and giving it metaphorical wedgies like the overgrown bully that it is. Reportedly, the Ruskies have been waging a "cyber war" in recent weeks -- Estonia's well-regarded networks have been "under heavy attack," and officials are saying that Russians are behind the mass outages of its country's websites, both state-owned and private.
The reason? Probably because a big Soviet-era war memorial was removed from a square in Estonian capital Tallinn a couple of weeks ago.
NATO and EU officials are attempting to track down the hackers. Moscow has reportedly "denied any involvement in the Internet attacks on its neighbor." The Russian government seems perfectly capable of poisoning its enemies, so turning a few ones into zeros around and looking the other way doesn't surprise us (even though in the above picture, Russian president Vladimir Putin looks like he's getting a computer lesson).
It's so cyber-24! (And certainly beats the current sucky soap-opera-esque season of that show.)
From Engadget and BBC
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Idamarie Kolpack @ May 19th 2007 12:21AM
I read he message boards often. What I don't understand is why they are printed in the right column covered up by the ads?
that is totally annoying. Put the message boards where they belong.
Idamarie kolpack
A @ Jun 6th 2007 3:05AM
why why ussr russia people uses america computers..what for..