http://news.techworld.com/security/3217728/weak-states-leave-eu-open-to-cyberattack/ By John E. Dunn Techworld 18 March 2010 EU states need to work far more closely with one another to have any chance of fending off the sort of cyberattacks that caused huge problems for Estonia in 2007, a House of Lords report has said. According to the Protecting Europe against large-scale cyber-attacks report, the Estonian cyberwar of April that year was the model of the sort of attacks that were likely to hit the EU in the next few years, featuring a highly-connected society dependant on the Internet that also lacks adequate defences against DDoS (distributed denial of service) and botnets. The committee's report shies away from naming which EU states were rated by the experts it spoke to as giving cause for concern, but hints more than once that that Eastern European is a particularly weak link in an otherwise quite strong chain. That could be any of ten states in theory, but refers most likely to the smaller and poorer ones, so read Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Estonia, meanwhile, has learned its lesson and is believed to have upped its defences. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Thu Mar 18 2010 - 23:13:58 PDT
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