Barry sends in a very interesting article from the New York Times. The article documents a curious occurrences that took place several weeks leading up to the Russian invasion of Georgia.
William Gibson and the other crafters of the Cyberpunk venue were pretty much dead on IMHO
The article is full of descriptions of not only ddos attacks but site defacement and other very inventive attacks.
<- more of the NY Times cyber attack on Georgia ->
- Weeks before bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace.
- (Internet Experts at) Arbor Networks in Lexington noticed a stream of data directed at Georgian government sites containing the message: “win+love+in+Rusia.”
- Other Internet experts in the United States said the attacks against Georgia’s Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests — known as distributed denial of service, or D.D.O.S., attacks — that overloaded and effectively shut down Georgian servers.
William Gibson and the other crafters of the Cyberpunk venue were pretty much dead on IMHO
The article is full of descriptions of not only ddos attacks but site defacement and other very inventive attacks.
<- more of the NY Times cyber attack on Georgia ->
2 comments:
Great, so Russia is even more of a jerk than I thought. I can't believe the UN hasn't done anything about this whole thing yet...
You would think, but then how much did they do when it became clear that the US invaded a sovereign nation under false pretenses. I am not supporting the Russian invasion but I am not screaming to loudly lest the glass wall crack.
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