The Estonian court fined the culprit in DDoS- attacks on the site server party Reforma, the leader of the ruling coalition committed in May last year - reports The Reuters. Malicious attacker was a 20- year-old Estonian student Dmitry Galushkevich who arranged a diversion from your home computer. He was fined 17,500 kroons (about 1635 dollars).
According to Ars Technika, the student was an act of protest against the actions of the Estonian authorities to dismantle the monument of the Unknown Soldier. Recall that the transfer of the monument has caused a great resonance among Russian-speaking population of Estonia and the Russian society.
Recall the case has taken the international scope of the scandal, and the Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet stated that the sites of state institutions have been attacked by hackers from Russia. A month later, the Estonian authorities have appealed to Russia for help in the fight against online predators. ...
It is also important that, according to BBC Estonia is the most advanced in terms of information technology among the countries of the Former Soviet Union. It is difficult to believe in the fact that the average student could alone inflict such disturbances. Do not believe in it and Estonians. ' We had only one suspect in a number of attacks, and he was convicted - said the representative of The Reuters Northern Judicial District Prosecutor's Office of Estonia Mr.. Maesalu - but investigation of other cases of attacks going on '.
Recall that in late May, the blame for the organization of DDoS-attacks on Estonian websites taken the Moldovan Commissioner Nashi, Konstantin Goloskokov. ...
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