Russian hackers accused mastermind of attacks Twitter

August 9, 2009

Attacks experienced by Twitter and some other popular web services that occurred on Thursday and Friday have been with the hundreds of thousands of internet users.

In fact, actually the main target of attacks is a professor in the economics of the Republic of Georgia. Georgi, professor aged 34 years is an activist blogger who often express opinions in the blog. He is a refugee from Abkhazia region, which is currently one of the disputes between the Georgian state with Russia.

Suspected, the attack was committed by Russian hackers, the hackers did not like the activity Georgi. Georgi using virtual name Cyximu (a region in Georgia), teaches at the State University of Sukhumi.

In interview with the New York Times, Georgi confess a LiveJournal blog account on Thursday. However, Georgi claim fails. Then he tried to open Facebook, but also not successful. Then try Twitter, but Twitter also can not open.

“I thought, this is weird .. I happened to all the service is not open,” said Georgi. In fact, while it is true that the attack occurred in the hacker known by the term Distribute Denial of Service (DDOS) on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LiveJournal.

Millions of spam email bombard to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LiveJournal. actually these attacks is an effort to block a web page a few professors in the service line.

According to Graham Cluley, a security expert internet from Sophos, a DDOS attack occurs when computers have become a bot to bombard the property Georgi website to request information.

“Normally hackers is able to control thousands of computers that have been infected as a bot (computer slave) and ordered them to visit a site so that traffic to the site becomes full, and other internet users can not log in to the site,” said Graham, is quoted Timesonline from the site.

“as Analogy, similar as to make people fat 15 to enter through the door at the same time, so that no one can move in,” Graham added.

According to Georgi, assault on himself is one of the silent efforts opinions on the internet. “I think this attack happened because I have a difference of views about the history of war between Russia and Georgia, with what disseminated with the Russian government,” said Georgi on the Washington Post.

The attack occurred at the time, Georgia and Russia the middle of a year of war between the two countries. At that time, Russian forces into Georgia to defend South Ossetia from the Georgian attack, meaning to stop the rebels. Meanwhile, Georgia claimed that as the invasion of Russia.

In addition to DDOS attacks, hackers also spread the name of the spam email to many target Georgi, Georgi for discredit of credibility as a spam sender. Along with the attacks to Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal, the site of several Georgia also get from hacker attacks.


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