Before the gunfire, cyberattacks
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
International Herald Tribune - Published: August 13, 2008
By John Markoff
Weeks before bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace.
Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks in Lexington noticed a stream of data directed at Georgian government sites containing the message: “win+love+in+Rusia.”
Other Internet experts in the United States said the attacks against Georgia’s Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests — known as distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attacks — that overloaded and effectively shut down Georgian servers.
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Want to vet a baby sitter? Need to peek into the background of a prospective employee? Curious about the past of a potential date?
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