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criminal activities including child pornography, malware, identity theft,
phishing and spam. Other computer researchers said that R.B.N.
s role is
ambiguous at best.
We are simply seeing the attacks coming from known
hosting services,
said Paul Ferguson, an advanced threat researcher at
Trend Micro, an Internet security company based in Cupertino, Calif. A
Russian government spokesman said that it was possible that individuals in
Russia or elsewhere had taken it upon themselves to start the attacks.
I cannot exclude this possibility,
Yevgeniy Khorishko, a spokesman for the
Russian Embassy in Washington, said.
There are people who don
t agree with
something and they try to express themselves. You have people like this in
your country.
Jumping to conclusions is premature,
said Mr. Evron, who founded the
Israeli Computer Emergency Response Team.
13 August 2008
By Glenn Chapman
Georgia targeted in cyber attack
Georgian government websites have been under intense cyber attack on
top of the Russian military strikes launched against the country late last week,
a US Internet firm said Tuesday.
Tulip Systems Inc said they took over hosting of the websites for Georgia's
presidency and a major television network on Saturday, a day after Russian
forces poured into Georgia in response to Tbilisi's attacks on a Moscowbacked rebel province.
Tulip executive Tom Burling said the distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS)
attacks began in the weeks running up to the outbreak of the Russia-Georgia
conflict and continued Tuesday after the Kremlin announced it had ceased
hostilities in the former Soviet state.
"They have been attacking Georgia from a cyber standpoint since July,"
Burling told AFP. "They are still doing it now."
"Our poor technician here has gotten three hours sleep in the past four days,"
he said.
Burling suggested that Russia was behind the attacks, which are similar to a
cyber offensive waged against Estonia last year that coincided with a
diplomatic spat between the Baltic state and Moscow.
DDoS attacks consist of overloading websites with so many online requests
that systems crash.
Burling said Georgian government websites were being slammed with
hundreds of millions of simultaneous requests for documents when Tulip gave
them refuge, Burling said.
"The cyber attack was taking down every Georgian government website," he
said.
On Tuesday, the Georgian sites hosted on Tulip were still reportedly getting hit
with 68,000 requests at a time.
Russia has denied involvement in cyber assaults on Georgia and experts say it
is difficult to determine exactly who is behind such attacks.
"The Georgian government's websites have obviously been under attack,"
said Gadi Evron, an Israeli computer security specialist that investigated the
cyber assault on Estonia.
"It is simply too early and we lack enough information to reach any
conclusion as to the motive and identity of the attackers," he said.
Evron said that such cyber warfare has become commonplace in the past
decade.
"These types of attack are only natural and happen immediately following
any conflict or political tension," Evron told AFP in an email.
DDoS attacks are simple, economical and hard to trace.
The assaults are typically done by using networks of computers that have
been turned into "zombies" or "bots" with malicious software planted by
hackers without the owners of machines being aware.
"Botnets" can grow to thousands or millions of machines and be commanded
to simultaneously make requests at targeted websites.
Andre DiMino, director of Shadowserver, a nonprofit Internet security
watchdog with team members around the world, warned against jumping to
the conclusion that Russia's government is the culprit in the Georgia cyber
attacks.
"This actually looks more like grass roots hacktivist types -- people that jumped
on the bandwagon," DiMino said, using Internet jargon referring to political
activists that resort to online evil-doing.
Tulip's Burling said the trend of such cyber maliciousness was a cause for
concern.
"It's like the Olympics. We are supposed to be above politics in the Internet
community."
Georgian forces attacked the Moscow-backed rebel province of South
Ossetia to regain control of the region which broke away from Tbilisi in the
early 1990s.
Russian troops and tanks poured into Georgia on Friday after the Georgian
offensive.
INTERNATIONAL DATA GROUP
13 August 2008
By Jeremy Kirk
Estonia, Poland help Georgia fight cyber attacks
In an intriguing cyber alliance, two Estonian computer experts are scheduled
to arrive in Georgia by evening to keep the country's networks running amid
an intense military confrontation with Russia.
And Poland has lent space on its president's Web page for Georgia to post
updates on its ongoing conflict with Russia, which launched a military
campaign on Friday to eject Georgian troops from South Ossetia and
Abkhazia, two renegade areas with strong ties to Russia.
The cooperation between the former Iron Curtain allies is aimed at blunting
pro-Russian computer hackers, who have been blamed over the last few
years for cyber attacks against Estonia, Lithuania and Georgia in incidents
linked to political friction between those nations and Russia.
Two of the four experts that staff Estonia's Computer Emergency Response
Team (CERT) were waiting Tuesday morning in Yerevan, the capital of
Armenia, seeking permission to drive into Georgia, said Katrin P

criminal activities including child pornography, malware, identity theft,

phishing and spam. Other computer researchers said that R.B.N.

s role is

ambiguous at best.

We are simply seeing the attacks coming from known

hosting services,

said Paul Ferguson, an advanced threat researcher at

Trend Micro, an Internet security company based in Cupertino, Calif. A

Russian government spokesman said that it was possible that individuals in

Russia or elsewhere had taken it upon themselves to start the attacks.

I cannot exclude this possibility,

Yevgeniy Khorishko, a spokesman for the

Russian Embassy in Washington, said.

There are people who don

t agree with

something and they try to express themselves. You have people like this in

your country.

Jumping to conclusions is premature,

said Mr. Evron, who founded the

Israeli Computer Emergency Response Team.

13 August 2008

By Glenn Chapman

Georgia targeted in cyber attack

Georgian government websites have been under intense cyber attack on

top of the Russian military strikes launched against the country late last week,

a US Internet firm said Tuesday.

Tulip Systems Inc said they took over hosting of the websites for Georgia's

presidency and a major television network on Saturday, a day after Russian

forces poured into Georgia in response to Tbilisi's attacks on a Moscowbacked rebel province.

Tulip executive Tom Burling said the distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS)

attacks began in the weeks running up to the outbreak of the Russia-Georgia

conflict and continued Tuesday after the Kremlin announced it had ceased

hostilities in the former Soviet state.

"They have been attacking Georgia from a cyber standpoint since July,"

Burling told AFP. "They are still doing it now."

"Our poor technician here has gotten three hours sleep in the past four days,"

he said.

Burling suggested that Russia was behind the attacks, which are similar to a

cyber offensive waged against Estonia last year that coincided with a

diplomatic spat between the Baltic state and Moscow.

DDoS attacks consist of overloading websites with so many online requests

that systems crash.

Burling said Georgian government websites were being slammed with

hundreds of millions of simultaneous requests for documents when Tulip gave

them refuge, Burling said.

"The cyber attack was taking down every Georgian government website," he

said.

On Tuesday, the Georgian sites hosted on Tulip were still reportedly getting hit

with 68,000 requests at a time.

Russia has denied involvement in cyber assaults on Georgia and experts say it

is difficult to determine exactly who is behind such attacks.

"The Georgian government's websites have obviously been under attack,"

said Gadi Evron, an Israeli computer security specialist that investigated the

cyber assault on Estonia.

"It is simply too early and we lack enough information to reach any

conclusion as to the motive and identity of the attackers," he said.

Evron said that such cyber warfare has become commonplace in the past

decade.

"These types of attack are only natural and happen immediately following

any conflict or political tension," Evron told AFP in an email.

DDoS attacks are simple, economical and hard to trace.

The assaults are typically done by using networks of computers that have

been turned into "zombies" or "bots" with malicious software planted by

hackers without the owners of machines being aware.

"Botnets" can grow to thousands or millions of machines and be commanded

to simultaneously make requests at targeted websites.

Andre DiMino, director of Shadowserver, a nonprofit Internet security

watchdog with team members around the world, warned against jumping to

the conclusion that Russia's government is the culprit in the Georgia cyber

attacks.

"This actually looks more like grass roots hacktivist types -- people that jumped

on the bandwagon," DiMino said, using Internet jargon referring to political

activists that resort to online evil-doing.

Tulip's Burling said the trend of such cyber maliciousness was a cause for

concern.

"It's like the Olympics. We are supposed to be above politics in the Internet

community."

Georgian forces attacked the Moscow-backed rebel province of South

Ossetia to regain control of the region which broke away from Tbilisi in the

early 1990s.

Russian troops and tanks poured into Georgia on Friday after the Georgian

offensive.

INTERNATIONAL DATA GROUP

13 August 2008

By Jeremy Kirk

Estonia, Poland help Georgia fight cyber attacks

In an intriguing cyber alliance, two Estonian computer experts are scheduled

to arrive in Georgia by evening to keep the country's networks running amid

an intense military confrontation with Russia.

And Poland has lent space on its president's Web page for Georgia to post

updates on its ongoing conflict with Russia, which launched a military

campaign on Friday to eject Georgian troops from South Ossetia and

Abkhazia, two renegade areas with strong ties to Russia.

The cooperation between the former Iron Curtain allies is aimed at blunting

pro-Russian computer hackers, who have been blamed over the last few

years for cyber attacks against Estonia, Lithuania and Georgia in incidents

linked to political friction between those nations and Russia.

Two of the four experts that staff Estonia's Computer Emergency Response

Team (CERT) were waiting Tuesday morning in Yerevan, the capital of

Armenia, seeking permission to drive into Georgia, said Katrin P