Doctorfaustus writes "I first picked this up in bits and pieces last week off Daily Rotation. A more in-depth story is expedient at ZDNet, which reports 'a week's worth of speculations around Russian the net* forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's orientation superhighway infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several uncle sam* web sites, with postgraduate work DDoS attacks against plentiful other Georgian washington* sites, prompting the union to switch to hosting locations to the US, with Georgia's convent of Foreign Affairs undertaking a desperate step in order to disseminate real-time news by moving to a Blogspot account.' There is a query whether the laptop* work is being done by the Russian soldierly or others. ZDNet's story offers further anatomy of the attacks themselves and their origins. Some pretty good reporting." And reader redbu11 contributes the news that Georgia seems to be censoring access to all Russian websites, as 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. all rights reserved.view results from: thesaurus | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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share this: by a Georgian looking glass/nslookup tool. The access is blocked on DNS level (Italy censored the Pirate Bay in the same way). Here are a couple of screenshots (in a gibberish other than English) as of Aug 12th 5:40 pm: www.linux.ru nslookup — FAIL, www.cnn.com nslookup — OK. ComputerWorld guy CWmike adds "In an thought-provoking cyberalliance, two Estonian calculator experts are heading to Georgia to keep the country's intelligent retrieval running amid an intense martial confrontation with Russia. Poland has lent space on its president's Web page for Georgia to post updates on its ongoing conflict with Russia. Estonia is also now hosting Georgia's cloister of Foreign Affairs Web site."

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