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Attack on Estonia Puts Cyber Security on EU Agenda

Via Reuters.

The European Union will address cyber security issues after attacks on the Internet sites of Estonia, EU Information Society commissioner Viviane Reding said on Saturday.

Estonia suffered cyber attacks on private and government Internet sites, peaking in May after a decision to move a Soviet-era statue from a square in Tallinn prompted outrage from some Russian nationals in Estonia and triggered a diplomatic row with Moscow.

"Estonia was a wakeup call," Reding told a European Business Leaders Convention. "We have to wake up our governments ... If people do not understand the urgency now, they never will."

posted by Fergie @ 6/30/2007 05:49:00 PM