DDoS-attacks: a new way to kill free media?

translator — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:42:54 +0400

Two weeks ago the respected Russian media websites - Kommersant.ru (daily business newspaper) and Echo.msk.ru (Echo Moscow radio) - faced hours-long denial of service fallout. Few weeks before online resources devoted to all-Russian liberal rally "March of disagreement" were down for days. Now massive attacks of Drugaja Rossija ("Another Russia") party take place. This cases gave their victims every reason to believe DDoSers are financed by political powers.

Kommersant.ru fell down after it has published a record of Boris Berezovsky questioning by Russian police related to Aleksandr Litvinenko's death. But website's chief editor Pavel Chernikov sees no political attachments to this case and would rather suspect of few teenagers learning 'cool tricks' and playing hackers.

Aleksandr Plushev from Echo.msk.ru admits that DDoS-attacks as an instrument of information wars is nothing new although these recent attacks showed new bounds of attackers' resources. 'It would be possible to proceed the attackers only if officials are interested and force security services to manage it", he resumes.

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