Cyber warfare " , the truth in a real case
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Attacks against IT systems are common and attackers are often making headlines by compromising secure and critical systems to carry out malicious activities. These attacks aggravate during political conflicts and hackers get involved in destroying each other’s IT infrastructure ultimately leading to a cyber war. History has witnessed many cyber wars and the cyber attack against Estonia in April 2007 is one of the recent examples of such conflicts, which brought another dimension of war in information age. This paper will cover in detail the cyber attacks against Estonia and will highlight many issues associated as a result from this conflict. This paper will also cover the tools and techniques used to carry out the attacks against Estonia along with possible defences and tracing of the perpetrators.
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