The New Front Line: Estonia under Cyberassault

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July/August 2007 (vol. 5 no. 4)

pp. 76-79

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	Michael Lesk, "The New Front Line: Estonia under Cyberassault," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 76-79, July/August, 2007.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MSP.2007.98, author = {Michael Lesk}, title = {The New Front Line: Estonia under Cyberassault}, journal ={IEEE Security and Privacy}, volume = {5}, number = {4}, issn = {1540-7993}, year = {2007}, pages = {76-79}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2007.98}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Security and Privacy TI - The New Front Line: Estonia under Cyberassault IS - 4 SN - 1540-7993 SP76 EP79 EPD - 76-79 A1 - Michael Lesk, PY - 2007 KW - Estonia KW - cyberattacks KW - DDoS KW - cyberwar VL - 5 JA - IEEE Security and Privacy ER -

Michael Lesk, Rutgers University

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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Estonian computers were completed inexpensively enough to seriously call into question any assumptions that they were coordinated or run by agents of the Russian government. Indeed, motivated businesses and organization now have many resources within easy reach to launch botnet attacks.

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Estonia, cyberattacks, DDoS, cyberwar

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Michael Lesk, "The New Front Line: Estonia under Cyberassault," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 76-79, July/Aug. 2007, doi:10.1109/MSP.2007.98

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