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Eastern European Security Center to Defend Against Cyber Attacks

by Will Safer on May 16, 2008 at 02:45 PM



Seven European members of NATO are banding together to create a cyber defense center in Estonia, following that country's experience with an overwhelming attack on its Internet structure last year, which it blamed on hackers in Russia who were been upset with the Estonian government's decision to move a statue of Vladimir Lenin in its capital city of Tallinn to a graveyard. In the end, it may have been an Estonian who staged some of the attacks but ethnic Russians living in the Baltic state and others in Russia itself were likely responsible.

More than 1 million remotely operated computers are estimated to have been involved in the attack. Actual riots occurred in the city after this event last April.

Germany, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy and Spain will provide staff for the center and the United States will send observers to watch how this group devises strategies to defend against cyber attacks, which can easily escalate into a national security problem for a country under fire.

The center will be fully staffed by the end of August and fully operational in 2009. [Source: BBC]

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