Weeks after an organized cyberattack on the Baltic nation of Estonia, security experts in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are assessing its impact and asking the obvious question: Can it happen here?
The good news, they say, is that a similar attack would be less likely to succeed in the United States because of the immense size and breadth of the Internet networks here. But the same methods could be employed in new ways to wreak havoc here, and so experts say the private sector and the government have to work harder at shoring up Internet defenses.