Estonia accuses Russia of ' waging cyber war'

Estonia accuses Russia of ' waging cyber war'

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Estonia is accusing Russia of waging cyber war against it by launching massive attacks on computer systems in the Baltic republic.

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Flooding Estonian websites with hits is the method, bringing them down by "overloading the servers".

Estonian experts have traced the internet protocol (IP) addresses that identify individual computers back to systems used by Russian authorities, including some in the presidential administration.

Geez... haven't they heard of proxies yet?


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Here is an excellent video describing the problem.

World War 2.0

This topic should really receive more attention.