Sunday, March 16, 2014

Ukraine / Crimea: the Cyber Warfare Front

The official website of the Crimean referendum is down due to a cyber-attack that originated from the US, Crimean authorities say. The exact location from which the website’s servers were attacked was Illinois University, Crimean minister of information and mass communications Dmitry Polonsky told Itar-Tass news agency.

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The referendum is taking place in Crimea, with the vote reported to be peaceful and with high turnout, according to both international observers and Crimean authorities. On Friday, major Russian government web resources were attacked with DDoS malware – those included the Russian president’s website, as well as those of the Foreign Ministry and the Central Bank. Also, state media websites – the Channel One and Russia-24 TV channels – were under attack, reportedly from Kiev.

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Finally, on the same day, an attempted radio-electronic attack on Russian TV satellites from the territory of Western Ukraine was recorded by the Ministry of Communications.

  RT
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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