After last April saw the removal of a Soviet memorial in Tallinn, and the subsequent protests and cyber attacks
that ensued, Estonia
is ready for a repeat.
Last month Suleyman Anil, NATO's computer incident response center head, stated that: "We have seen more of these attacks and we don't think this problem will disappear soon. Unless globally supported measures are taken, it can become a global problem,"
The attacks last year nearly brought the government to a halt and public services were severely immobilized.
Experts believe that despite an arrest made last year of an Estonian-Russian, the attacks originate from across the border in Russia.
At the NATO summit in Bucharest last week, plans for cyber defense in Estonia were discussed as well as plans for a permanent defense center.
Estonia is one of the cyber leaders of Europe, holding its first online election in 2005.
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