The battling between Georgia and Russia has moved into cyber-warfare. From Wired…
Civil.ge, the Georgian news site, is “under permanent [cyber] attack.” So they’ve switched their operations to one of Google’s Blogspot domains, to keep the information flowing about what’s going on in their country.
More information on this emerging cyber-war…
IntelFusion calls it a “full scale cyberwar being conducted by Russia against Georgia.” As always, however, its extremely difficult to sort out which hacks are being done with government involvement, which are being done with government wink-and-a-nod, and which have nothing to do with the government whatsoever.
Google and Estonia Help ‘Cyber-Locked’ Georgia
Meanwhile, Estonia — once the victim of Russian-based hackers — is now hosting Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. And “in a historic first, Estonia is sending cyber defense advisors to Georgia,” Network World observes.
Cyberattacks knock out Georgia’s Internet presence
Hackers, perhaps affiliated with a well-known Russian criminal network, have attacked and hijacked Web sites belonging to Georgia, the former Soviet republic now in the fourth day of war with Russia, a security researcher claimed on Sunday.
Georgia accuses Russia of waging ‘cyber-war’
Georgia today accused Russia of waging a parallel ‘cyber-war’, using hacking techniques to block key Georgian government websites.If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
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