iTWire - Cyber DefCon 5: Georgian Internet Under Attack, Russians Blamed

Cyber DefCon 5: Georgian Internet Under Attack, Russians Blamed

by Davey Winder
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Page 2 of 2 The sites involved include the official Georgian government sites for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence and the Mikhail Saakashvili presidential site. Access is either being blocked, or traffic redirected to servers in Russia and Turkey. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has apparently set up a Google hosted blog site as a temporary measure where it is posting details of the ongoing conflict. This also today confirms that "A cyber warfare campaign by Russia is seriously disrupting many Georgian websites, including that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." The Shadowserver Foundation tracks malicious activity on the Internet, and has told reporters that it is "seeing new attacks against .ge sites. www.parliament.ge and president.gov.ge are currently being hit with HTTP floods." Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Cyber attacks Cybercrime Cyberterrorism DDoS Davey Winder Georgia Russia War Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now << First page < 1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

< Next story in category		Previous story in the category >

Tags See All Tags