p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “RBN (Russian Business Network) now nationalized, invades Georgia Cyber Space,” says the headline to a post on RBNexploit, which monitors the Russian Business Network.

As IT Wire sums it up »»»

As the Russian tanks rolled towards South Ossetia over the weekend, one thing was certain: Russia was intent on teaching the upstart Georgia a lesson it would not quickly forget.

That lesson includes IT as it seems that as well as the sheer physical might of the Russian military, Georgia is also on the receiving end of that most 21st Century of battle strategies: cyber warfare.

“Georgia’s Foreign Affairs office web site [mfa.gov.ge ] had been attacked with Nazi images replacing those of Georgia’s President,” one report said, according to the story.

Other Georgian Web properties, “such as the Caucasus Network Tbilisi – key Georgian commercial Internet servers – remain under sustained attack from thousands of compromised PCs aimed at flooding the sites with so much junk Web traffic that they can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors,” says the Washington Post.

Meanwhile, Mikhail Saakashvili, president of besieged Georgia, has moved has moved his official web site to the US, says AHN, going on:

“Georgian-born Nino Doijashvili, owner of Atlanta’s Tulip Systems Inc., said the website for Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili as well as Georgian TV, were moved to the United States.”

. .Stumble It!

IT Wire – Cyber DefCon 5: Georgian Internet Under Attack, Russians Blamed, August 12, 2008
Washington Post -Georgian Web Sites Under Attack, August 10, 2008
AHN – Georgian President Relocates Website To Atlanta, August 11, 2008

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