Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Beginning on 27 April 2007, a series of cyberattacks targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
The Estonian Cyber-attacks of 2007, targeting Estonia's Internet resources, appear to be the first cyber attacks to be used as a weapon in a political conflict. In Estonia there was tension between the citizens that wanted their country to be more independent and the Russian-Estonians.
On 25 June 2007, Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves met with the president of United States, George W. Bush. [30] Among the topics discussed were the attacks on Estonian e-infrastructure. [31] The attacks triggered a number of military organisations around the world to reconsider the importance of network security in modern military doctrine.
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were a series of cyberattacks that began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers, and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
2007 cyberattacks on Estonia, wide-ranging attacks targeting government and commercial institutions; 2008 Cyberattacks during the Russo-Georgian War, a series of cyberattacks that swamped and disabled websites of numerous South Ossetian, Georgian, Russian, and Azerbaijani organizations. The attacks were initiated three weeks before the shooting ...
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia is considered to be an information operation against Estonia, with the intent to influence the decisions and actions of the Estonian government. While Russia denies any direct involvement in the attacks, hostile rhetoric from the political elite via the media influenced people to attack. [5]
May 17: Estonia recovers from massive denial-of-service attack [24] June 13: FBI Operation Bot Roast finds over 1 million botnet victims [25] June 21: A spear phishing incident at the Office of the Secretary of Defense steals sensitive U.S. defense information, leading to significant changes in identity and message-source verification at OSD ...
Estonia portal; 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia is part of WikiProject Estonia, a project to maintain and expand Estonia-related subjects on Wikipedia.If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.