[security-alerts] FYI: Estonian Websites Under Attack

["Kazennov, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Kazennov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 только там ссылка неверная - смотрите техническую информацию про атаки, 
зафиксированную  Arbor Networks на 
http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/05/estonian-ddos-attacks-a-summary-to-date/

 плюс на эту же тему - http://www.oxpaha.ru/citycat_455_27026
> 
>  --Estonian Websites Under Attack
> (May 10 & 17, 2007)
> Web sites throughout Estonia have been under attack for the past three
> weeks.  Riots and protests broke out on April 27 when Estonia 
> removed a
> Soviet war memorial statue in the capital city of Tallinn.  Ethnic
> Russians protested the statue's removal.  Russia is suspected of being
> behind the attacks, but no accusations have been made.  The 
> distributed
> denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have hit across the board at 
> government
> web sites as well as web sites of newspapers, banks and businesses.
> NATO has sent cyber terrorism experts to Tallinn to help the country
> improve its cyber defenses.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2081438,00.html
> http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_i
> d=9163598
> [Editor's Note (Liston): I find this incident to be troubling on many
> levels. While there is a great deal of disagreement on whether or not
> the Russian government is participating in this attack, the
> effectiveness of this DDoS highlights the potential for third-party
> agitators to potentially exacerbate an international incident.  Rapid,
> accurate and positive attribution of this type of cyber-attack is
> essentially impossible, which almost invites "interested" 
> third parties
> to use it as a means of stirring up trouble on an international level.
> (Ullrich): During the China-US standoff about the spyplane 
> that was shot
> down in 2001, Chinese hacker groups defaced US websites and US hacker
> groups retaliated. None of these attacks amounted to more then a
> nuisance. It is likely that the attacks against Estonia are similarly
> inspired by patriotism and not necessarily government controlled.
> However, as the importance of cyber warfare increases, better methods
> are needed to determine attribution of attacks.  (Honan): 
> Arbor Networks
> have an interesting entry in their Security to the Core Blog outlining
> a summary of these attacks as seen by them,
> http://asert.arbonetworks.com/2007/05/estonian-ddos-attacks-a-summary-to-date/.
> While TERENA has details on how the European CSIRT community is
> assisting Estonia in dealing with the attacks,
> http://www.terena.org/news/fullstory.php?news_id=2103]
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