Cyber Warfare: Russia v The Internet
Yesterdays denial of service attack which took down twitter and effected facebook, google and, it has emerged, the blogging site LiveJournal, appears to have been a large scale attack by Russian hackers to silence one man: a pro-Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu.
The attack, it is alleged, was co-ordinated by Russian hackers who sent out spam messages containing links to Cyxymu's twitter, facebook, LiveJournal and youtube pages. Cyxymu's pages at these sites are still down, though this may not necessarily be due to an ongoing attack rather than people curious to see who Cyxymu is. The question now is, how are these sites going to defend themselves from similar attacks? And does this mean I might have to do some work instead of reading twitter?
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