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News The centre will be based in Tallinn in Estonia and will be used to train Nato's civilian and military staff in cyber defence techniques. Seven Nato member states have signed documents for the formal establishment of the Cooperative Cyber Defence... [16 May 2008]
Skype trialled on Java mobiles
News The ability to make Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls from the mobile handset is limited to eight markets: Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Poland, Sweden and the UK. Skype has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled... [30 Apr 2008]
Nato allies form cyber defence command
News Nato allies have pledged to help each other deal with major attacks similar to the distributed denial of service attack that took down key banking and state systems in Estonia in 2007. A Centre of Excellence set up in Estonia will train Nato's... [08 Apr 2008]
Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'
News Anil said the cyber attacks on Estonia last year which brought down key financial and state systems had demonstrated how cyber terrorism could take down national infrastructure with "very serious consequences". [07 Mar 2008]
BP warns of cyber-terror threat
News Art Wong, senior vice president of managed security services for Symantec, said he had noticed an increasing trend for cyber-attacks to be politically motivated - as seen with recent exchanges between Estonia and Russia - but most attacks are... [25 Jun 2007]
Q&A: Kimmo Alkio, CEO, F-Secure
News I think there could actually be a big shift from commercial to political DDoS attacks, such as we saw recently with Estonia [and Russia]. Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, recently rejoined the antivirus vendor from fellow Finnish company Nokia.silicon... [01 Jun 2007]
Online fraud warning signs revealed
News Based on fraud reporting from UK fraud managers, the London postcode SE28 is the "most troublesome" for fraud and chargeback within the UK, alongside overseas destinations such as Estonia and Nigeria, according to 192.com.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [30 Apr 2007]
Offshore cost-advantage to last for 20 years
News Estonia India and China will retain their low-cost labour advantage and dominate the offshore IT and business process outsourcing services market for another 20 years. The annual Global Services Location List, by management consultancy AT Kearney... [19 Mar 2007]
Three charged over online stock scam
News The SEC has filed four account intrusion cases since December, involving defendants in Estonia, Latvia and now Hong Kong and Malaysia. US federal authorities have charged three men with hacking into online brokerage accounts and using the proceeds... [14 Mar 2007]
LogicaCMG in £882m bid for WM-data
News WM-data's small near-shore operations in Estonia and Poland will also complement LogicaCMG's operations in India and central Europe, the companies said. LogicaCMG is to acquire Swedish IT services company WM-data in an £882m deal that will make the... [21 Aug 2006]
VCs: Look at UK tech scene for 'the next Skype'
News Skype was the first example of a company that was founded by a Swede, based in Lichtenstein, with its development in Estonia and its headquarters in London," said Richard. Investors who are looking to put money into innovative tech start-ups should... [21 Feb 2006]
Tech recycling laws delayed yet again
News The European Commission announced in July this year that it was taking legal action against Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Poland and the UK. The UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks issued a statement on Thursday admitting that the UK... [16 Dec 2005]
SEC in legal fight with Estonians over financial hack
News Peek is a citizen of Estonia currently residing in Tallinn. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a legal attack on two men and the financial firm they work for, claiming they carried out a fraudulent hacking scheme that... [03 Nov 2005]
Estonia pioneers internet voting
News Estonia - which has a population of roughly 1.4 million - counted a total of about half a million votes in its local government council elections, according to preliminary numbers on the Estonian National Electoral Committee's website. [18 Oct 2005]
India still first choice for offshore outsourcing
News Some of the emerging offshore countries highlighted by Gartner, which do not yet have the sufficient resources and infrastructure to deliver services on a profitable level include Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mauritius, New Zealand... [21 Sep 2005]
