I’ve been looking at politically motivated DDoS events for some time now, geopolitics has always fascinated me. This has been a hot topic for some time, really kicked into high gear earlier this year with the Estonian DDoS events. Recently there was a DDoS against the site for Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko. With this in [...]
UPDATED to link to the F-Secure name map … This year the Storm Worm (aka Peacomm aka Nuwar aka Tibs aka Zheltin), but we should not forget about good old Stration, the spam botnet that preceded Storm. With Storm stealing all of the thunder this year, people seemed to think that Stration was whipped. Far [...]
A few things that popped up on my reading radar this morning. An interesting talk from last week by Jaak Aaviksoo, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Estonia, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies has been posted online. Entitled Cyberspace: A New Security Dimension at Our Fingertips, the speaker reviews the [...]