http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4508546.ece By Jonathan Richards Times Online August 11, 2008 Georgia today accused Russia of waging a parallel .cyber-war., using hacking techniques to block key Georgian government websites. There was confusion as to the extent of the attacks, however, with at least two independent internet monitoring companies saying they had seen no evidence of large scale attacks on Georgian government infrastructure. Hackers using so-called 'denial of service' attacks - where websites are bombarded with millions of hits, causing them to crumble - had taken down the website of the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), a Georgian Government spokesman said. According to one report, hackers at one point replaced the image on the MFA website with one of President Saakashvili alongside Adolf Hitler. The measures, which the spokesman insisted were the work of Russian hackers, had forced the MFA to set up an alternative website hosted by the Google-owned blogging service, Blogger, to disseminate information. [...] __________________________________________________ Visit Defcon Pics - Defcon Memory Repository http://www.defconpics.orgReceived on Tue Aug 12 2008 - 12:24:21 PDT
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