Vincent Arnold

In news across the pond as they say:

Estonia has urged its allies in the European Union and NATO to take firm action against a new mode of warfare that has been unleashed on the Baltic state in a bitter row with Russia over a Soviet war memorial: cyber-attacks.

“Taking into account what has been going on in Estonian cyber-space, both the EU and NATO clearly need to take a much stronger approach and cooperate closely to develop practical ways of combatting cyber-attacks,” Estonian Defence Minister Jaak Aaviksoo told AFP Tuesday.

“Considering the scale of damage and the way these cyber-attacks have been organised, we can compare them to terrorist activities,” Aaviksoo said a day after raising the new mode of warfare at talks with his fellow EU defence ministers in Brussels.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm and is filed under Information Security.