Tag: ESTONIA

The small post-Soviet nation of Estonia has created a bit of a paradigm for cyber-security: an elite, all-voluntary force of private and public sector tech pros, from programmers to administrators to top army officials. It's kind of like a cyber-Justice League. Before this starts to sound like a tale of vigilante justice, some history: in 2007, after Estonia made a decision to move a Russian ...

Brutal honesty here: on election day this past November, the entire Engadget staff (well, those of us with US passports) collectively agreed that casting our vote via SMS or some other incredibly simple method would be infinitely more awesome than trudging out in the streets and waiting in hour-long lines. Clearly, some higher-ups in Estonia are on board with that concept, as its Parliament has ...

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 ...

Last summer, Estonia's online networks were under attack. Many of the country's governmental Web sites, as well as some that belonged to newspapers and other national media outlets, were shut down by a flood of traffic from surrounding nations. The attacks began after the Estonian government made the controversial decision move a World War II monument to fallen Russian soldiers. During and ...