DDoS attack floors Georgia prez website

Published Monday 21st July 2008 13:45 GMT Nail down your security priorities. Ask the experts and your peers at The Register Security Debate, September 24 2008. A denial of service attack hit government websites in the former Soviet republic of Georgia over the weekend amid growing diplomatic tensions between the country and Russia. The DDoS assault on the website of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili rendered it unavailable over the weekend. The attack was run via botnet networks of compromised PCs. Shadowserver charts the command and control servers used in the attack, in an analysis here. The identities of those behind the attack are unknown, but Jose Nazario, security analyst at security tools firm Arbor Networks, reports that some among the messages contained in the floods of spurious traffic (HTTP, SYN, ICMP) read... [read full story]