Estonia - with a population of just over 1.3 million - has recruited a "ponytail army" of volunteer computer experts to protect the small Baltic state against a cyber attack.
Estonia has been badly hit by a series of cyber attacks which began in 2007 as part of a protest against the Tallinn government following the removal of the Bronze Soldier Soviet war monument erected in 1947.
The protests on the streets turned to cyber warfare when prominent government websites along with the websites of banks, universities and Estonian newspapers were targeted in a series of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Aimed primarily at specific sites and networks, DoS attacks block the access of legitimate users, rendering the entire site or network unavailable.
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