First ‘cyber-war’ hacker convicted in Estonia
Thursday January 24, 2008 at 6:53 am CST
Posted by Francois Paget
In April 2007, moving a Soviet statue from the centre of Tallinn to a suburb sparked anger within the country’s Russian community. They got organised and then requested and received the support of their compatriots. What developed was a form of “cyber demonstration”. Today, an AFP press release (French Press Agency) announces the first arrest regarding this crisis:
“Dmitri Galushkevich is the first hacker to be sentenced for organising a massive cyber-attack against an Estonian web-page,” Gerrit Maesalu, spokesperson for the regional prosecutor’s office in north-east Estonia, told AFP.
Galushkevich, a 20 year old Russian, pled guilty. He was fined 17.500 kroons (1,100 euros or $1,600USD) for piloting between April 25 and May 4 an attack against the Reform Party of Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:09 am
For about a year now the former Chief Strategist of Netscape has been warning everyone through his articles that this was a huge threat and actually identified several strategies and tactics that if used would compromise the information infrastructure in the U.S. and globally. Why is it our intelligence services are just waking up to this threat? Why is it throughout history we ignore or dismiss the experts until it is too late! I just did a Google search (Kevin Coleman Cyber Attack) and found over 13,000 references. With that much intelligence we should be much further along in protecting and defending against cyber attacks that we are today!