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| Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar                           |
|   from the who-shot-first dept.                                    |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 12, @15:10 (Security)        |
|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/12/191255 |
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[0]doctorfaustus writes “I first picked this up in bits and pieces last
week off [0]Daily Rotation. A more in-depth story is available at ZDNet,
which reports ‘a week’s worth of speculations around Russian Internet
forums have finally materialized into [1]a coordinated cyber attack
against Georgia’s Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already
managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS
attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting the
government to switch to hosting locations to the US, with Georgia’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertaking a desperate step in order to
disseminate real-time information by moving to a Blogspot account.’ There
is a question whether the computer work is being done by the Russian
military or others. ZDNet’s story offers further analysis of the attacks
themselves and their origins. Some pretty good reporting.” And reader
redbu11 contributes the news that Georgia seems to be [2]censoring access
to all Russian websites, as confirmed by a Georgian [3]looking
glass/nslookup tool. The access is blocked on DNS level ([4]Italy
censored the Pirate Bay in the same way). Here are a couple of
screenshots (in a language other than English) as of Aug 12th 5:40 pm:
[5]www.linux.ru nslookup — FAIL, [6]www.cnn.com nslookup — OK.

ComputerWorld guy [7]CWmike adds “[8]In an intriguing cyberalliance, two
Estonian computer experts are heading to Georgia to keep the country’s
networks running amid an intense military confrontation with Russia.
Poland has lent space on its [9]president’s Web page for Georgia to post
updates on its ongoing conflict with Russia. Estonia is also now hosting
Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Web site.”

Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/08/12/191255

Links:
0. http://www.dailyrotation.com/
1. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1670
2. http://georgien.blogspot.com/2008/08/news-georgia-news-digest-08-10-08.html
3. http://tools.ge/tool/nslookup
4. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/10/1934231&tid=215
5. http://img55.imageshack.us/my.php?image=georgianslookup3ap2.png
6. http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=georgianslookup1ou0.png
7. http://computerworld.com/
8. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112399&
9. http://www.president.pl/