cyber attack: Estonia says it repelled major cyber attack after removing Soviet monuments

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VILNIUS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Estonia has repelled 'the most extensive cyber attacks since 2007', it said on Thursday, shortly after removing Soviet monuments in a region with an ethnic Russian majority.

VILNIUS, Aug 18 - Estonia has repelled"the most extensive cyber attacks since 2007", it said on Thursday, shortly after removing Soviet monuments in a region with an ethnic Russian majority.

“With some brief and minor exceptions, websites remained fully available throughout the day. The attack has gone largely unnoticed in Estonia,” he added. In a DDoS attack, hackers try to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyse it when it can no longer cope with the scale of data requested.

 

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