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Student Fined for Attack Against Estonian Web Site

Jeremy Kirk writes on CSO Online:

A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined for participating in a cyberattack that paralyzed Estonian Web sites and soured the country’s relationship with Russia, a government official said Thursday.

Dmitri Galushkevich used his home PC to launched a denial-of-service attack that knocked down the Web site for the political party of Estonia’s prime minister for several days, said Gerrit Maesalu, spokesman for the Northeast District Prosecutor’s Office in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital. Galushkevich must pay 17,500 kroons (US$1,642).

Galushkevich is the only person who has been convicted since the cyberattack in April and May 2007 crippled the Web sites of banks, schools and government agencies.

posted by Fergie @ 1/24/2008 11:53:00 AM