The First Cyber War Battle--Estonia.

Sometimes an event happens at the far corner of your vision that has huge implications but you’re too busy to really focus on its importance. The recent cyber attack on key Estonian web sites fits that bill. The web sites of banks, the media, the Parliament and foreign and defense offices came under heavy “denial-of-service” attack by groups of computers around the world that swamped them with external requests..

Estonia is a country that lives on the net. Everything, from voting to banking is done on the web. So this was a very, very serious matter. The Estonian government points the finger at Moscow. Instructions on how to launch denial-of-service attacks were all over Russian-language web sites weeks before the attack. They started appearing just before a Soviet War Memorial was taken down, setting off ethnic Russian riots in Estonia.