Monday, 17. December 2007
Topic: WEB - on December 17, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Botnets linked to political hacking in Russia
Security researcher Jose Nazario has uncovered circumstantial Devidence of the use of botnets in politically-motivated denial of service attacks.
Political events in the wider world are sometimes accompanied by hacking incidents in cyberspace, such as defacements and the like. Nobody paid much attention to the issue until the Estonian DDoS events of earlier this year when government and commercial sites in the small Baltic country were taken offline for days in April amid a row with Russia about relocation of a Soviet-era memorial to fallen soldiers and war graves.
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