Estonian hackers have denied involvement in attacks on Georgia

In Estonia, there is no such network of cyber-criminals, who could participate in organized cyber attacks on Georgia in August 2008, according to director of the National Center for Development information systems CERT Hillar Aarelayd. "If in Estonia really acted this organized network of cyber-criminals, then either our Central Criminal Police, or Security Police have already detained the participants. According to my information, nothing like that happened," - he said in a state television broadcast on Tuesday. According Aarelayda, some are in the Estonian servers and home computers is malicious software, and they could still participate in the attacks on Georgian websites, but without the knowledge and against the wishes of its owners, said RIA Novosti. On Monday, a former CIA expert on cyber-security, John Bumgarner, who now works in the organization USCyber Consequences Unit (USCCU), for assessing the threats from cyber-crime, said that much of the cyber-attacks on government Web sites of Georgia during last year's war came from Estonia. "Our analysis shows that Estonia is related to cyber-attacks on Georgia. I know exactly who and where Estonia has participated in the attacks, but as you know, I can not disclose it," - Bumgarner said in an interview with the Estonian newspaper Eesti Paevaleht. After the invasion of Georgian troops into South Ossetia in early August 2008 to hacker attacks have been sites of the official Tbilisi. In particular, were attacked Links Georgian Foreign Ministry, Interior Ministry, Defense Ministry, a number of other ministries and departments of Georgia, news agencies. The Georgian side has blamed Russia's power. Been widely ddos-attacks were not only Georgian, South Ossetian and sites, to report on the fighting. In particular, for some time been inaccessible sites news agency Osinform and Ossetian radio and television, has disrupted the official site of the State Committee on Press and Information of the Republic of South Ossetia. Director of Research Center for computer forensics University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gary Warner, previously told the media that the attacks on Georgian sites have been organized by the authorities of Russia, as claimed by the Georgian side, but the result of mass "popular" movement.