Tallinn - The Baltic nation of Estonia is to send experts to Georgia to help prevent cyber attacks amidst the Georgia's conflict with Russia, officials said Monday. Estonia will send to Georgia two specialists in information security from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Estonia, Foreign Ministry representatives told the Baltic News Service.
Some Georgian government and commercial sites have been unavailable, while others may have been hijacked, news media reported.
Estonia itself suffered through cyber attacks on its government servers after the Estonian government decided to relocate the Soviet-era monument from the centre of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, in April 2007.
Like Georgia, Estonia broke free from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Then, cyber attacks on Estonia accelerated the creation of the NATO Cyber Defence Centre in Tallinn.
