Bruce Sterling on the Estonian Cyberwar

Here is the talk Bruce Sterling gave at Korea University last week about the Estonian Cyberwar.

In this eye-opening presentation, Bruce explains what happened to Estonia earlier this year when the country’s infrastructures got down following by a massive DDOS attack. He shares his theory that a Russian group of hackers called the Zhelatin gang might be behind the attacks, and were actually only flexing the muscles of the world’s largest and most powerful botnet.

Anybody who is involved in the infrastructure side of a large business should watch this. We’ve been warned.

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One Response to “Bruce Sterling on the Estonian Cyberwar”

  1. Spy Guy Says:
    December 29th, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    I saw the former Chief Strategist of Netscape speak on Cyber Warfare at the SECTOR Conference in Toronto, What an eye opening experience. He stated that given the current cyber weapons race, a cyber war is all but a sure thing. He said “with every tick of the clock we are one second closer to an all out cyber war.” He also talked about a number of cyber weapons that are both software and hardware. The attack on Syria seem like a small skirmish compared to the massive cyber events in late 2007.

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