On internetnews.com, Sean Michael Kerner writes:

The Republic of Estonia is under a massive cyber onslaught that apparently is targeting government servers in a broad-based distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. Quantitative data points the finger at a broadly based attack, but speculation is rampant that the Russian government is behind it.

He calls in an expert, Jose Nazario, who is a software and security engineer for the Arbor Networks Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS). It's a distributed botnet, he says, and there is also evidence that there are different attacking groups and it's not just one botnet behind it, which makes it harder to take down.

This is something that doesn't require a government . . . though one gets the strong feeling that the Russian government is, in some way, behind this. Whether Putin has been in on it, I've no idea. It's the kind of thing that might start out as a policy initiative but then takes control of itself, like a distributed terrorist network.

This may be the nature of the next attack upon America from Islamic extremists, by the way.

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