CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 6PM_Estonian Prime Minister on cyber attacks (November 30)

30.11.2007

San Francisco, CA

Nov. 30, 2007- -9:37 PM EDT

Local Broadcast Time: 6:37 PM PDT

Reporter: Estonian Prime Minister is in Silicon Valley today for the low pressure of his country's foreign trade-offs in San Jose. In little more than 10 years the tiny nation on the Baltic Sea bordering Russia and Latvia went from being a soviet puppet state to one of the world's most technologically advanced countries.

Reporter: But a controversial decision by the Prime Minister to move a soviet war memorial from the center of estonia's capital sparked riots. A signer attack traced to neft sites in Russia knocked nearly all estonian government networks offline. Estonia was not the first keen of the attack nor the largest. that dubious distinction belongs to the United States whose civilian and military computers have been under attack by suspected chinese government agents since 2003.  A Prime Minister appealed to NATO to retaliate militarily against Russia. He says nato refused because it could not define cyberwar.
Estonian Prime Minister : I  cannot see any big difference between the situations where somebody wants to attack or blockade seaports or air fields and independent country and when somebody attacks a website of the newspapers or websites of governmental institution in an independent country.
Reporter: NATO defense ministers say they are studying the importance of a computer network security and expect to have a proposed policy this year.

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