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Estonian Cyber Defence Hub Set Up

Posted by samzenpus on from the protecting-the-innocent dept.

w1z4rd writes "The BBC reports that seven Nato nations have backed a new cyber defence centre in Estonia, which last year blamed Russia for weeks of attacks on its internet structure. The US will initially send an observer to the project, which will have some 30 staff when fully operational in August."

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  1. Re:NATO ? Russia ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Let alone mention that such an institution could in the future help the pesky Ests defened themeselves against cyber attacks. Such as the ones directed against them by Russia when they dared remove a soviet statue from the center of Tallinn. NATO is clearly trying to provoke the peace loving Russians!

  2. Re:Estonia, estonia... by shiznatix · · Score: 5, Informative
    Seriously dude, the article is 8 short paragraphs. Try reading them next time before looking like an idiot.

    The centre will provide research, consultation and training on the development of cyber defences for participating national governments.
    This is a training ground. Not a bunker with a bunch of geeks waiting for someone to DDoS them so they can unleash hell on them.

    I'm guessing their websites cater mostly to Estonians which basically means they consistently failed to take scaling into account. Estonia doesn't need a Cyber Defence Hub. Just a bit of common sense.
    Thats just stupid. Since nearly every single bank user in Estonia uses online banking and since there are a million different services provided online by the government the servers have been setup with scaling in mind. That 1.3 million will hit the tax website on the first day that you can file you taxes (yes, we do all our taxes online) and the server does just fine. Common sense is saying that they are doing things just fine with scaling.
  3. Re:Blame Russia? by shiznatix · · Score: 5, Informative

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't those attacks eventually turn out to have nothing at all to do with Russia, being instead the work of a single person?
    Here, I will do it since everyone on slashdot believes this even though in the original slashdot article that is cited when this is said says nothing of the sort. Dmitri Galushkevich was the guy who was fined. Somebody had to be hung, he was the only one to get caught. The Russian Youth leader idiot guy claims responsibility as well link let alone the probability that there were others who joined in but who knew how to keep their mouth shut. When a bank is robbed by a group but only 1 person is caught, he was the sole perpetrator all of a sudden? The original article even says:

    Because the attacks were botnet-driven and launched from servers all over the globe, however, it's impossible to state definitively that only a single individual was involved.
    Oh and blaming Russia is a fairly safe bet here. You don't think the Russian Youth is funded through charity I hope. Also, the blockade of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow just magically had electricity and all the finer points of camping. And all the people who joined in the blockade just magically were able to quit their jobs for quite some time because it would be just unheard of if they had been paid to protest.
  4. Re:Estonia by Mental+Maelstrom · · Score: 5, Informative

    Russian propaganda has got you nevertheless... The exaggerated glaims by Russia which are fed to their public are very hypocritical considering the facism, neonazism, racism, putinjugend and human rights violations present in Russia.

    I'd say its not Estonia playing up, but Russia, whose people still worship the old Soviet Nation. Can you believe they actually believe the soviets "liberated" Estonia in World War II? But estonians still very well remember the mass deportations and silent genocide conducted by the KGB.

    As for present-day Russia - they're cocky again and are looking to rule over neighbouring nations. The false information they're planting into the minds of their citizens clearly indicates they are hostile toward other nations. It's definately a global threat!

  5. Re:NATO ? Russia ? by mauri · · Score: 4, Informative

    "The Russian government deliberately and systematically attacked Estonia's infrastructure last year"

    This is of course pure bullshit (tm). And yes, I am Estonian too and know quite a bit about this "attack". Essentially some pissed of guys bought DDoS against some Estonian websites (mainly media and some government) and that was it. There were nothing special in this DDoS, just http queries coming from host of usual suspects (countries with lax security & no ISP filtering of bad traffic) - no notable traffic from Russia.
    Of course the DDoS was bad in our context, our 100mbit line was something like 98-99% full and only upstream filters at ISP managed to block it. But was it cyberwar by Russia? Hardly.

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  6. That was a tomb, not just a "statue" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Few people would care about a statue and launch a cyber war. That was a tomb where Russian soldiers were buried.