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Originally Posted by David
AP
It's what was used last year by hackers in a three-week assault that crippled government and corporate computer networks in the small Baltic nation of Estonia, which is highly computer-savvy.
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Hello from Estonia here
Jes, this cyber attack was nice & caused a lot of financial loses (more then 10-20s millions they did by looting Estonia streets – youtubest search “Tallinn riot” or “blonze soldier”) but in the end it was good. Estonia internal network was pretty ok & people in estonia even did not understand the big problem, except some banks was offline & some users internet was disrupted. But we was unable to send data out from Estonia or receive news from outside world as we did before.
This was attack was good for Estonia in the end because
1) our networks are more secure now then before
2) it was good training & study operation for Estonians and also for Nato later on
3) Nato is considering to build hes Cyber defense center to Estonia now after they see Estonians wonderful work
4) all this actually made people more know about Estonia russian problem, when they was looting Estonia streets whit Nashi members no one cared
5) world did understand more about cyber terror and cyber war after these news was going around : estonia-russia.tk (but they do similar things in Georgia now).
Now there is clear proofs that Russia did not just use their own botnet and hackers but they also both some Chinese botnets for 3-4 days, after payment ended the mayor attack ended.
Hackers are part of future wars & 100% they are part for information collection & manipulating & disrupting. But to build Military Botnet for DDOS attacks is not the brightest idea in world. Like they did say themselves: hackers use OTHER people computers for attack or just hide their IPs. There might be other uses for this botnet, but doss against doss…