Submission + - Cyberwar: Russia vs. Georgia
doctorfaustus writes: "I first picked this up in bits and pieces last week off Daily Rotation. A more in-depth story is available at ZD Net, which reports "a week's worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting the government to switch to hosting locations to the U.S, with Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertaking a desperate step in order to disseminate real-time information by moving to a Blogspot account."
There is a question whether the computer work is being done by the Russian military or others, since "Who's behind it? The infamous Russian Business Network, or literally every Russian supporting Russia's actions? How coordinated and planned is the cyber attack? And do we actually have a relatively decent example of cyber warfare combining PSYOPs (psychological operations) and self-mobilization of the local Internet users by spreading "For our motherland, brothers!" or "Your country is calling you!" hacktivist messages across web forums." ZD Net's story offers further analysis of the attacks themselves and their origins. Some pretty good reporting...."
