August 13th, 2008
Georgia cyberattacks just 'enthusiasts'?
Gadi Evron, former head of Israel’s CERT, says the evidence in the attacks on Georgia’s government websites points to “enthusiasts” not the Russian government. “Not all fighting is warfare,” he says.
While Georgia is obviously under a DDoS attacks and it is political in nature, it doesn’t so far seem different than any other online after-math by fans. Political tensions are always followed by online attacks by sympathizers.
Could this somehow be indirect Russian action? Yes, but considering Russia is past playing nice and uses real bombs, they could have attacked more strategic targets or eliminated the infrastructure kinetically.
Coulda, shoulda… the nature of what’s going on isn’t clear, but until we are certain anything state-sponsored is happening on the Internet it is my official opinion this is not warfare, but just some unaffiliated attacks by Russian hackers and/or some rioting by enthusiastic Russian supporters.
(Via News.com
