Estonian news site gets DDOS'd

But not too badly

By Egan Orion

Thu Jan 17 2008, 15:01

AHEAD OF the impending trial of ethnic Russians charged with rioting last year, Estonian news site www.delfi.ee has been assailed by denial-of-service attacks over the last two weeks.

Four Estonians of Russian descent are alleged to have participated in street riots in May 2007 protesting the government's decision to relocate a Soviet-era statue of a Red Army soldier and the rumoured destruction of Russian soldiers' graves dating from WWII.

The civil disturbances were accompanied by a wave of cyber attacks against Estonian computer servers that were allegedly traced to Russian government computers.

The latest attacks ended Tuesday and were only minimally disruptive, according to Hillar Aarelaid, manager of Estonia's Computer Emergency Response Team. µ

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