cyberattacks

Estonia is one of the Northern Eastland countries that have recently become an EU member. The country, populated by only slightly over 1.3 people, represents one of the least-populous members of the European Union. The country is bordered by the Gulf of Finland to the north, by Latvia to the south, by the Baltic Sea to the west and by the Russian Federation to the east. By today, Estonia has gained recognition for its economic freedom that along with its adaptation of new technologies made the country to become one of the world's fastest growing economies for several years.

Chinese largest search engine Baidu.com filed a lawsuit against its US domain registrar over a hack that took down the Web site, alleging negligence by the US company.

Last week, users had failed accessing Baidu.com for several hours after the company's domain name server in the US was tampered with. The same group, the Iranian Cyber Army, that took down Twitter last month, also was found to be behind the attack on Baidu.

Nowadays cybersecurity is vital to everything we do. How often do you use a computer? How much of your sensitive information is stored either on your own computer or on someone else's system? It seems that everything depends on computers and the Internet, starting from shopping and communication to education and banking.