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RIA Novosti hit by cyber-attacks as conflict with Georgia rages
17:50 | 10/ 08/ 2008
MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - RIA Novosti news agency's website was
disabled for several hours on Sunday by a series of hacker attacks, as
the conflict between Russia and Georgia over breakaway South Ossetia
continued for a third day.
Websites in both Russia and Georgia have been hit by cyber attacks since
Georgia launched a major ground and air offensive to seize control of
South Ossetia on Friday. Russia responded by sending in tanks and
hundreds of troops.
"The DNS-servers and the site itself have been coming under severe
attack," said Maxim Kuznetsov, head of the RIA Novosti IT department.
RIA Novosti's servers are now functioning as normal.
A top Russian diplomat accused foreign media on Sunday of pro-Georgian
bias in their coverage of the ongoing conflict.
Russia says Georgian forces have killed around 2,000 South Ossetian
civilians, mainly Russian nationals, since the start of the offensive,
and that 34,000 locals have been forced to flee to Russia. In response
to the Georgian attacks, Russia sent tanks and troops into the province,
and carried out a series of air strikes on Georgian military targets.
