World War 2.0 ?
Following lethal riots over the removal of a Soviet era Red Army war memorial , Estonia has come under Cyber attack from within Russia . Phillip Ball reports in Nature :
The attacks on Estonian websites, triggered by the government's decision to relocate a Soviet-era war memorial, consisted of massed, repeated requests for information that overwhelmed servers and caused sites to freeze — an effect called distributed denial of service...
The attack is particularly serious for Estonia because of its intense reliance on computer networks for government and business. It boasts a 'paperless government' and even its elections are held electronically. Indeed, information technology is one of Estonia's principal strengths — which is why it was able to batten down the hatches so quickly in response to the attack. In late 2006, Estonia even proposed to set up a cyber-defence centre for NATO.
More on how the denial of use wave assaults are progressing and how the Kremlin is spinning it, at
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