08.13.08

Russian Cyber Warfare

Posted in Technology at 11:02 am by Jason G.

From Stratfor…

The Georgian news Web site Civil.ge claims that it is “under permanent DDOS attack,” referring to a distributed denial of service attack that attempts to overwhelm a server’s capacity. After assistance from Google and Estonian computer security experts, it is now being hosted temporarily on a Blogspot account.

While Cyber Warfare is not a new concept, this sounds like the first time switching your government’s website to Blogspot was the strategic response…