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Estonia Considers Mandatory Drafting of IT Experts for Cyber Army

Estonia has built a volunteer cyber army following the 2007 crippling cyber attack against the country's Internet infrastructure and is now considering a mandatory draft among IT experts to increase its efficiency.Dubbed the Cyber Defense League, the cyber unit is currently brings together computers scientists, ...

5 January 2011
12:58 GMT

Windows 7 Update Changes the Currency Symbol of Estonia to Euro €

Microsoft is adapting the latest releases of Windows to the changes Estonia is going through as part of the process of becoming a member of the European Union and embracing the Euro. In this regard, the Redmond company releases an update designed to change the currency symbol for Windows users in Estonia from the Es...

27 December 2010
03:56 GMT

Two-Year-Old Cyberattack on Estonia Again in the Spotlight

During a video conference between Moscow and Washington, to which reporters from both countries participated, Russian State of Duma Deputy Sergei Markov shocked everyone when he claimed that his assistant launched the attacks that crippled the entire Estonian IT infrastructure back in 2007. Sergei Markov is a Deputy...

9 March 2009
09:01 GMT

Cellphone Voting for Estonia by 2011

A law has already been issued in Estonia, stating that all interested voters, who must first follow some simple instructions, can vote using their cellphone. As the law has already been approved, it is most likely that users could vote right away, but since the system isn't quite ready, the waiting period will b...

15 December 2008
08:15 GMT

Major Botnet Resurrection Partially Prevented

Following the recent takedown of the notorious McColo ISP, the control servers of several major botnets have been knocked offline, rendering the armies of zombie PCs out of the reach of their owners. Researchers from the FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab have fought and succeeded to keep the largest of these botnets, ...

1 December 2008
05:29 GMT

Estonia - Victim of Ingenuity

There was an online attack at the beginning of the year, against Estonia. It took down government servers. However, the Estonians got this matter fixed fast. They communicated, asked for help and things were solved. Since then, many suppositions have been made, some groundless, some with a little bit of evidence. In ...

28 September 2007
10:29 GMT


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