I don't normally publish international news, but the New York Times has published a story about large scale cyber attacks targeting Estonia's infrastructure. Some are calling it the first cyber war.
Computer security experts from NATO, the European Union, the United States and Israel have since converged on Tallinn to offer help and to learn what they can about cyberwar in the digital age.
'This may well turn out to be a watershed in terms of widespread awareness of the vulnerability of modern society,' said Linton Wells II, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration at the Pentagon. 'It has gotten the attention of a lot of people.'
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