Back in late April and early May, the country of Estonia was the victim a denial of service attack. A ton of internet messages flooded the systems making it impossible to perform their regular function. At least some of the messages supposedly came from Russian IP addresses. "The cyber attacks came after Estonia removed a Soviet-era statue of a Bronze Soldier in Tallinn, which angered many Russians."
CNET reports that at recent computer security conferences Gadi Evron gave presentations on lessons learned from the event. Oddly the article is titled and begins by saying flash mobs may have been responsible and then doesn't mention them again.
I had to lookup Flash mobs, "a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse." "About 200 people flooded the lobby and mezzanine of the Hyatt hotel in synchronized applause for about fifteen seconds." That sounds like a lot more fun than participating in a DoS attack. Though whatever the source, the attack on Estonia is probably not the last such event.
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Clearly, DoS attack, most likely, coordinated by Russian hackers is wrong... As far as I am concerned, the country that gives Nazi soldiers a veteran status, celebrates Nazi victory over Soviet Army and engages in human rights violations against ethnic Russians, does not have my sympathy.
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