RSSEstonia Blames Moscow for Cyber Attacks
By Ed Oswald | Published May 17, 2007, 3:24 PM
The nation of Estonia says it has reason to suspect that Russia has played a part in cyber attacks that have brought both government and business websites across the country to a near-standstill.
While not concrete yet, Estonia's Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo told the Associated Press that there is enough evidence to at least suspect Russia's involvement in the attacks. All six major banks were targeted, as well as government offices and corporations.
The attacks began shortly after the country decided to move a war memorial placed by the former Soviet Union -- which Estonia was formerly a part of -- from the downtown district of its capital city, Tallinn.
Estonians wanted the memorial out of its capital due to its links to 50 years of Soviet occupation. However, Moscow argued that removing it would desecrate the sacrifices of Russian soliders.
About 1 million computers have been used in the attacks. In some of them, IP addresses were traced back to Russian governmental offices. NATO has stepped in to assist the Estonian government over fears that its own systems could be targeted
Russian officials are denying any wrongdoing and have suggested that attackers were spoofing Russian IPs in an attempt to direct blame towards the Russians. However, Estonia claims instructions on Russian websites told participants where and when to attack.
Estonia? Isn't that where Linkavich Chamovski was from?
(Only a select few will know what the hell I'm takling about)
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|The cheese is old and mouldy!
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|"Yeah but that was before she hit babehood"
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we'll see how serious you were ;)
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|If it wasn't for "Soviet Occupation" these stupid freaks would be under Nazi rule right now along with the rest of the world. Instead they are a free country that has no respect for people who died defending them while their own military existed mostly in theory.
Even if Russia had anything to do with the attack, they will never prove it :-)
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|LOL. Why didn't the Estonian's greet the Soviets as liberators? Ungrateful baztards.
Anyone else getting a sense of De Javu?
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|"these stupid freaks would be under Nazi rule right now along with the rest of the world."
The Nazis were defeated in 1945 , Estonia was under Communist Rule intill the 90's
get yer history straight
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|I was referring to my last game of Risk.
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|"IP addresses were traced back to Russian governmental offices"
Government machines are just as susceptible to being part of a zombie network as any other. Hell, 10 motivated and equally disgruntled guys in Russia with the underground means can call in hundreds of thousands of compromised machines worldwide. They're probably all buds anyway. Once Estonia started whining they all likely started piling on.
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|Well,im glad you guys cleared that up.Please,thats a bunch of bull.Russia has clearly been behind many plans to destabilize certain regions.You both act like Russia is a beacon for humanity.Thats laughable.These guys are the reason there are many unaccounted for nukes around the world because their government fell and lost track,or so they say.Wonder why they fell?Because of things of the same nature as these.They participate and order people assasinated around the world,look it up if you need proof.Ridiculous?I think not.These guys have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar numerous times.
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|Yeah so many nukes have gone missing...lmao someone has been watching too much 24. If the nukes have gone missing a) why have the terrorists not used them against the infidels and b) why do middle eastern countries and places like north korea try so hard to produce them if they can buy them so easily on the open market!!
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|Ridiculous.
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|If the Russian Government was going to do something to Estonia would it really be to target their websites? Grow up ffs!! This is down to probably some disgruntled groups of people who live in Russia, but not their government!!
Estonia claims instructions were on some websites! Were these government websites? And which websites were these?
I saw a Estonia website that said that Putin was a retard, but I can't remember which one it was, but thats not the point because it said it.... so there!
God I hate politics!!
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