Comments on: Georgia On My Mind – Political DDoS

By: Serge

Serge — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:52:25 +0000

How long USA and so called “democratic countries” will cover the truth about this war?Around 1000 USA marines and military instructors use to train georgian`s troops before this war.USA,ISRAEL,UKRAINE, sold weapon to Georgia in huge volume.At this days african -americans military instructors were found dead in South Ossetia.New Hitler,Saakashvili who killed 2000 people mostly kids,elderly people has protection from USA,ISRAEL,UKRAINE,GB and some “friends countries”.Genocide by Saakashvili rewarded by countries who sold weapon to this dictator.Newspapers,tv,radio telling the same story about Russian invasion,but nobody says,that this war was planned event,long time before by good paid dictator Saakashvili.Why western people do not have information from South Ossettia,but fake video by tv companies? This is moment of truth and sooner or later people and countries who did it will be punished by God.

By: Comunicati Stampa » Le tensioni politiche tra Georgia e Russia scatenano un attacco DDoS

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:20:40 +0000

[...] Sul blog di Josè Nazario sono disponibili ulteriori informazioni sull’ultimo attacco DDoS: asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/07/georgia-on-my-mind-political-ddos/ [...]

By: Zero Day mobile edition

Zero Day mobile edition — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:43:25 +0000

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By: Alberto

Alberto — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:16:49 +0000

This attack does appear to have geopolitical motives. A UN Observer mission in Georgia has maintained a peacekeeping force since 1993, lead by Russian troops.

“a CIS peacekeeping force of Russian troops is deployed in the Abkhazia region of Georgia together with a UN military observer group; a Russian peacekeeping battalion is deployed in South Ossetia… OSCE observers monitor volatile areas such as the Pankisi Gorge in the Akhmeti region and the Argun Gorge in Abkhazia” According, to a recent update on CIA.gov under transnational issues.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gg.html#Issues

Possible motive for the attacker’s actions: Russia accuses Georgia of open aggression
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080704.wgeorgia0704/BNStory/International/

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:37:22 +0000

Hi,

You have been certainly looking in the right direction. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are regions of Georgia supported that have been seeking annexation to Russia with the support from Russian troops.

You can search for relevant links in del.icio.us, some of the tags are:

Ethnic-Cleansing-of-Georgians
United_Nations_resolutions_on_Abkhazia
Jamestown
Georgia AND WSJ
Georgia AND FT.com
Georgia AND WashingtonPost
Georgia AND Condoleezza-Rice

By: CN

CN — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:33:19 +0000

aside from the actual attack and its motives, some interesting communications from an “employee” of the hosting company where the site is located..

one comment can be seen here – http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=5220780&postcount=41

“The issue yesterday and today has been with a very large DDoS. After yesterday, we had thought the issue was resolved after the IP being attacked was null-routed, but today things resumed again on several different IPs for the same customer and we have now been forced to ask that customer to leave”

Now, what good does that do? Broadcasting this message on a public internet forum says one thing to any current and potential customers looking for a hosting provider.. “Next”

Just because you may be a smaller provider, you cannot overlook the possiblity of attacks, while mitigation options out there are quite costly, there are alternatives which should be researched, tested, taught to your noc and staff and then used in practice.

Link to full thread – http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=709064