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RE: [ISN] Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar

From: InfoSec News (alertsinfosecnews.org)
Date: Wed Mar 11 2009 - 02:10:08 CDT

Forwarded from: "Denning, Dorothy (CIV)" <dedennin (at) nps.edu>

This is not what RFL reported. RFL reported that Markov said that his
assistant was operating on his own. Markov is quoted as saying that the
"assistant happened to be in 'one of the unrecognized republics' during
the dispute with Estonia and had decided on his own that 'something bad
had to be done to these fascists.'" He further said "Turns out it was
purely a reaction from civil society."

Dorothy Denning

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Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:11 AM
Subject: [ISN] Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2828

By Adam O'Donnell
Zero Day
March 8th, 2009

Radio Free Europe is reporting that an official from Putin's party has
publicly stated that he orchestrated the 2007 DDoS Attacks on Estonia.

The information security and military communities have been speculating
for the past two years about who were the primary actors behind the 2007

Estonian DDoS attacks. On Friday, Radio Free Europe ran an article
stating that Sergei Markov, a deputy from the State Duma and United
Russia party member claimed to have directed an assistant to instigate
the a civilian-lead cyber war through unofficial channels

This would be akin to my congressperson, Nancy Pelosi, having her
assistant troll message boards and 2600 meetings looking for people to
DDoS France in 2002 because they wouldn't go along with our Iraq war
plans.

If the admission is correct, it means that Russia's DDoS actions were
more of a people's militia-type activity rather than a view into their
regular military's information warfare capabilities.

[...]

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