http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4508546.ece



By Jonathan Richards

Times Online

August 11, 2008



Georgia today accused Russia of waging a parallel .cyber-war., using 

hacking techniques to block key Georgian government websites.



There was confusion as to the extent of the attacks, however, with at 

least two independent internet monitoring companies saying they had seen 

no evidence of large scale attacks on Georgian government 

infrastructure.



Hackers using so-called 'denial of service' attacks - where websites are 

bombarded with millions of hits, causing them to crumble - had taken 

down the website of the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), a 

Georgian Government spokesman said.



According to one report, hackers at one point replaced the image on the 

MFA website with one of President Saakashvili alongside Adolf Hitler.



The measures, which the spokesman insisted were the work of Russian 

hackers, had forced the MFA to set up an alternative website hosted by 

the Google-owned blogging service, Blogger, to disseminate information.



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