HSM 438 Week 2 Assignment, Three Case Studies: Information Warfare and Cyberterrorism

“In April and May 2007, hackers unleashed a wave of cyber-attacks that crippled dozens of government and corporate sites in Estonia. Estonia is one of Europe’s most wired countries.  Estonian authorities traced the so-called denial of service attacks to Russia. Authorities suggested they had been orchestrated by the Kremlin a charge Moscow denied. The online assault followed Estonia’s decision to move a Soviet World War II memorial from downtown Tallinn on April 27, 2007. This sparked furious protests from Russia’s government and rioting among Estonia’s ethnic Russian minority.  Experts said hundreds of thousands of computers were ….in a coordinated attack against government agencies and banks. …………..Continued (06 Pages with References

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