[Scspamcop] Re: OT, Ralsky Indictment (Link)

[Tim McGraw]

David Bolt wrote:
> One of the defences the Storm worm incorporates is a DDOS attack on anyone "interfering" with the botnet.

Wow, that's truly scary.

On a barely related not, on his 26th annual McLaughlin Group year-end 
awards John McLaughlin said:
> Most underreported story of 2007: The massive Russian cyber attacks on Estonia last May. The Russians were angry at Estonia because the Estonians removed a Russian statue of a general commemorating World War II. The Russians carried out the cyber attacks by hijacking networks of Estonian computers. The story was written up in Wired Magazine. It shows how incredibly powerful and incredibly far-reaching digital warfare is, and it is totally immobilizing, crippling to the adversary, and it can be staged remotely.

That Wired story, which somehow got past me last spring, is here: 
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia