p2pnet news view | Politics:- The hacks on Georgian websites may not have been part of a Russian cyber war against the country after all.

” ‘RBN (Russian Business Network) now nationalized, invades Georgia Cyber Space,’ says the headline to a post on RBNexploit, which monitors the Russian Business Network,” said a p2pnet post yesterday.

But Gadi Evron, founder of the Zero Day Emergency Response Team, told CNET News, “although the impact on their web sites is clear, I believe this may end up being just some kids who got over-excited, with Georgia being ill-prepared to say the least.”

On Circle D, he states »»»

Facts:
1. There are botnet attacks against .ge websites.
2. These attacks affect the .ge Internet infrastructure, but it’s reachable.
3. It doesn’t seem Internet infrastructure is directly attacked.
4. Every other political tension in the past 10 years, from a comic of the Prophet Muhammad to the war in Iraq, were followed by online supporters attacking targets which seem affiliated with the opposing side, and vise-versa.

He also says »»»

While Georgia is obviously under a DDoS attacks and it is political in nature, it doesn’t so far seem different than any other online after-math by fans. Political tensions are always followed by online attacks by sympathizers.

Could this somehow be indirect Russian action? Yes, but considering Russia is past playing nice and uses real bombs, they could have attacked more strategic targets or eliminated the infrastructure kinetically.

Coulda, shoulda the nature of what’s going on isn’t clear, but until we are certain anything state-sponsored is happening on the Internet it is my official opinion this is not warfare, but just some unaffiliated attacks by Russian hackers and/or some rioting by enthusiastic Russian supporters.

CNET adds Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks said there’s evidence the Georgians responded to the hacks by attacking a Russian newspaper Web site.

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Georgian websites – Georgia in cyber invasion, August 12, 2008
CNET News -Kids, not Russian government, attacking Georgia’s Internet, says researcher, August 13, 2008

Circle D – Internet Attacks Against Georgian Websites, August 11, 2008

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