http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/estonia/11564163/Estonia-recruits-volunteer-army-of-cyber-warriors.html
By David Blair
Tallinn
telegraph.co.uk
26 Apr 2015
Estonia has recruited a "ponytail army" of volunteer computer experts who
stand ready to defend the nation against cyber attack.
The country's reserve force, the Estonian Defence League, has a Cyber Unit
consisting of hundreds of civilian volunteers, including teachers, lawyers
and economists.
The Baltic nation of 1.3 million people is one of the most technologically
advanced in the world: almost every banking transaction takes place online
and 30 per cent of all votes in the last general election were cast
electronically.
But this also makes Estonia acutely vulnerable. In 2007, the country
suffered one of the biggest cyber attacks in history when the websites of
banks, government ministries and the national parliament were swamped with
data.
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