CYBERATTACK IN

ESTONIA
Van Speybroeck Maxime
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 1. REASON OF THE ATTACKS
 2. WHAT HAPPENED ?
 3. WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?
 4. REPERCUSSIONS
 5. WHAT ABOUT THE FILM?
1. REASON OF THE ATTACKS
 27April 2007
 Relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn
1. REASON OF THE ATTACKS
 It caused violent riots in Tallinn
 1death and 44 injured
2. WHAT HAPPENED ?
 Cyberattacks against Estonia
 Many important websites were down
 Dos attacks
DOS ATTACK
 Denial of service attack
 Put a network or a service down
 Zombies
ESTONIA IN TERMS OF
COMPUTING
 Most connected European country
 80% of banking transactions are made online
3. WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?
 Estonia accused Russia
 September 6 : No proof
 Requests came from everywhere in the world
 « This is political ». Merit Kopli
 April 30 : Estonian minister of justice
declaration
KONSTANTIN GOLOSKOKOV
 Part a the russian group Nashi
 Was a part of the attacks
 Worked without any Russian authorities help
4. REPERCUSSIONS
 3weeks of chaos
 NOTA reacted
 Estonian reactions
 Second largest instace of state-sponsored
cyberwarfare
 « Cyberinvestigations usually end at a
compromised computer in a third country on
which the logs have been deleted »
TITAN RAIN
 Cyberattacks against America
 2003
 Lasted 3years
5. WHAT ABOUT THE FILM?
 « As we put more and more of our lives on the
Web, we’re becoming more and more
vulnerable to the bad elements, to the
networks of hate and to the darker uses of the
Web. »
 « If you take down the newspapers, you don’t
know what’s going on in the country. If you
take down the banks, the economic activity is
paralysed. And if you’re an Estonian
businessman in Paris and you need to contact
your bank over the Internet to get some funds
out, you couldn’t . »
 « All you have to do is pick up the newspaper,
and wherever you see there is conflict in the
real world, there is conflict in cyberspace. »
 « At the moment, a quarter of the planet is
connected, but I wonder what will happen
when the remaining 75% comes online. Will
the web help us to achieve greater global
understanding, or will we face new dangers
that we never even imagined? »
 Thank you for your attention!