Written question asked by Nigel Evans (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 February 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 February 2008. It was answered by Bob Ainsworth (Labour) on Monday, 18 February 2008 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.
Estonia: Hacking
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on the distributed denial of service attack on Estonian critical infrastructure in May 2007.
- Answer
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The disruption Estonia faced in May 2007 underlines the importance of the work NATO is carrying out on cyber defence and the protection of critical infrastructure. Cyber defence is discussed by NATO Defence Ministers on a regular basis; most recently at their meeting in Vilnius which the Secretary of State for Defence attended on 7-8 February.
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- Written question
- Reference
- 472 c98W; 185953
- Session
- 2007-08
- Subjects
- Defence Computers Estonia Hacking
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