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Digital risk trends 2008: hacking. Cyberwarfare. Identity theft. Ten years ago these risks were barely on the radar of most organizations. Today they are ubiquitous. With new threats appearing every day, Risk Management takes a look at some of the most fr
Internet Under Siege He who controls DNS, controls the internet. Recently, security researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed the existence of a basic design flaw in the internet's addressing system that essentially exposed every online network to hackers. The flaw was in the net's Domain Name System DNS, the system...
Tags: attack, eBay Inc., ESTONIA, hacker, Hacking, INTERNET, Pentagon, radar, radio, Retail, SECURITY, Web
Research articles 2008-10-01
A year on, jury out on economic harm of Estonia's row with Russia
TALLINN AFP — A year after the Estonian capital Tallinn was trashed in demonstrations sparked by the relocation of a Soviet war memorial, the jury is still out on whether Russia has used backdoor trade sanctions to punish its Soviet-era vassal. One recent official study said the tiny Baltic...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, Russia
Research articles 2008-04-26
Estonia to drill NATO's future cyber-war defenders
TALLINN AFP — Almost a year after falling victim to a "cyber-war" blamed on Russian hackers, the Baltic state of Estonia is now piloting NATO's efforts to ward off future online attacks on alliance members. After this week's NATO's summit in Romania, Estonia and seven other alliance partners will...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, alliance, attack, Estonia, NATO, SECURITY, Strategy
Research articles 2008-04-01
Estonia fears English too dominant in its schools
TALLINN AFP — Education authorities in Estonia Thursday warned that the hands-down dominance of English in its schools is depriving the Baltic state of the language specialists it will need in the future. A hefty 84 percent of pupils in this country of 1.3 million people opt to study...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, Strategy
Research articles 2008-03-13
Estonia-Russia: Will film on Soviet-era 'Sinatra' warm icy ties?
TALLINN AFP — Music and the magic of celluloid may help warm icy ties between Estonia and Russia when a biopic on the late Estonian opera singer Georg Ots, idolised as a Soviet-era 'Sinatra', hits Russian cinemas this weekend. "Russians over 50 know and love Georg Ots, an Estonian...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, cinema, Estonia, MARKETING, Russia, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 2008-03-08
Examine 2007 Eastern Europe Broadband and Convergence Markets
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84240) has announced the addition of "2007 Eastern Europe Broadband and Convergence Markets" to their offering. This annual report offers a wealth of information on the Broadband and Convergence markets in Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova,...
Tags: ADSL, broadband, Estonia, FTTH, network, NETWORKING, Russia, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, WIRELESS
Research articles 2008-02-27
Estonia, US make strides on visa-free travel, but criticism grows
TALLINN AFP — Estonia, a staunch ally of Washington, has made strides in talks on visa-free travel to the United States for its citizens, authorities said Wednesday, amid domestic criticism of an alleged climbdown. "Estonia has made good progress in talks on visa-free access to the United States," the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, Government, INTERNET, U.S., Washington
Research articles 2008-02-13
Estonia convicts first 'cyber-war' hacker: prosecutors
TALLINN AFP — An ethnic Russian has become the first person convicted for involvement in a "cyber-war" on Estonia last year amid unrest during the removal of a Soviet-era war memorial, prosecutors said Wednesday. "Dmitri Galushkevich is the first hacker to be sentenced for organising a massive cyber-attack against...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Estonia, hacker, Hacking, INTERNET, prosecutor, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-01-23
Lithuanian's trip to work leads her off-track to Estonia
TALLINN AFP — The Baltic states' membership of Europe's borderless Schengen zone gave a Lithuanian woman a rude awakening after her journey to work led her to the wrong country, Estonian police said Tuesday. The 33-year-old supermarket cleaner, identified only as Jolanta, hitched a ride Monday on a truck...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, Europe, supermarket
Research articles 2008-01-15
Estonian author Jaan Kross dies at 87
TALLINN AFP — Estonians on Friday paid tribute to the Baltic state's most celebrated contemporary author Jaan Kross, following his death in the Estonian capital Tallinn aged 87. "Jaan Kross suffered at both the hands of the Nazis and the Soviets, he was imprisoned and deported," Estonian President Toomas...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, Nazi
Research articles 2007-12-28
European leaders hail expansion of passport-free Schengen zone
TALLINN AFP — European leaders from both sides of the defunct Iron Curtain Friday marked the expansion of the Schengen passport-free travel zone to nine mostly ex-communist states, saying it was one more step to ending old divides. "Today, along with the elimination of internal border controls, the citizens...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, ceremony, Estonia, Europe, European Commission, leader, Leadership
Research articles 2007-12-20
Estonia to sell border posts after Schengen entry
TALLINN AFP — The Baltic state of Estonia has come up with a solution for its redundant frontier posts after it joins Europe's borderless Schengen zone this week: it plans to put them on the real estate market. "We plan to sell four facilities used by the Estonian border...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, frontier, newcomer
Research articles 2007-12-18
Estonia
Highlights and Key Issues * Pressure on the exchange rate is subsiding as the trade deficit begins to decline. But the improvement is due mainly to a drop in imports as the growth rate slows sharply. Q3 growth fell to 6.4%, confirming the rapid drop towards a medium-term trend below...
Tags: Council of Europe, Estonia, FINANCE, inflation, surplus
Research articles 2007-11-21
Electronic attackers: computer crimes keep government and industry on the defensive.(CYBER WARFARE)
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An onslaught of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks has prompted the government and private sector to step up efforts to share information and secure networks around the country. Yet the complexity of new malicious code and the elusive nature of ...
Tags: attack, attacker, Companies, computer, Estonia, FBI, General Accounting Office, Government, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Research articles 2007-10-01
Cyber warfare between Estonia and Russia
IT seemed innocuous enough. The grim bronze statue of a Soviet soldier in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, an already uncomfortable presence at the centre of a city no longer under Soviet 'occupation', was relocated last April to the tranquil setting of a war cemetery. The remains of Soviet soldiers...
Tags: attack, computer, Estonia, Government, INTERNET, Pentagon, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-09-22
Estonia to open embassy in virtual world Second Life
TALLINN AFP — Tech-savvy Baltic state Estonia is to open an embassy in the Internet fantasy world Second Life, joining the likes of Sweden and the Maldives, the foreign ministry said Friday. "The virtual embassy will be located in the Second Life website, that has nearly 10 million registered...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, INTERNET, ministry, Second Life
Research articles 2007-08-31
Narva's Russians cross bridge for vodka but prefer their Estonian home
NARVA, Estonia AFP — There are few better places to get behind the complexities of vexed relations between Estonia and its former overlord Russia than with your feet planted on the river bank in this eastern border city. Separated by a bridge over just 150 metres yards of water...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Estonia, Moscow, Russia, vodka
Research articles 2007-08-08
Barren run is no concern for Owen
LONDON AFP — Michael Owen is no stranger to fighting battles. He has silenced the sceptics who doubted whether he would ever fully recover from the knee injury which prematurely ended his World Cup last year, but now he must confront his sternest challenge yet: rediscovering the form which...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, England, Estonia, football, Games
Research articles 2007-06-02
Hargreaves in England fitness race
LONDON AFP — Midfielder Owen Hargreaves is in a race against time to be fit enough to be selected for England matches against Brazil and then Estonia. England manager Steve McClaren is about to name his squad and is hoping to include knee-victim Hargreaves, who is set to transfer...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, England, Estonia, Games
Research articles 2007-05-25
EU/ESTONIA/RUSSIA : COMMISSION VOICES CONCERN OVER ESTONIA-RUSSIA EMBASSY SIEGE ROW.(European Union. European Commission)
The EU strongly demanded on 2 May that Russian authorities reinforce the protection of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow, which has been besieged by activists protesting the decision to remove a World War II memorial from downtown Tallinn. In a statement, the Commission expressed...
Tags: commission, Estonia, European Commission, Moscow, Russia, SALES, voice
Research articles 2007-05-25
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