Saturday, January 31, 2009

Hackers knock Kyrgyzstan offline

Russian hackers knocked Kyrgyzstan offline with a massive, sustained denial of service attack focused on the country's two main Internet service providers.

See, "Kyrgyzstan Knocked Offline," Wall St. Journal, January 28, 2009, at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310906904622741.html; "Kyrgyzstan goes offline following Russian hacker attack," The Industry Standard, January 29, 2009, at http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/01/29/briefly-russian-hackers-kick-kyragystan-internet.

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