Wednesday, January 16, 2008

With Trials Beginning, Yet Another Estonian Cyber Attack

Robert McMillan writes on InfoWorld:

With the trial starting for four ethnic Russians charged in connection with rioting last year, the Estonian news site Delfi.ee has weathered a two-week-long DoS attack.

The attack, which ended Tuesday, was minimally disruptive, according to Hillar Aarelaid, manager of Estonia's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). He described it as an "ordinary DDoS" attack in which the news agency's servers were flooded with Internet traffic, in an attempt to crash them.

More here.

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