The Web site of President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia was inaccessible on Sunday as a result of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to the Shadowserver Foundation, a volunteer security watchdog organization. Tensions between Georgia and Russia require been running high in recent years. Abkhazia, a region of Georgia, has been seeking recognition as some independent representative government, a goal Georgia rejects and Russia supports. Echoing the more serious politically oriented DDoS attack conducted against Estonian government sites last summer, Shadowserver's Steven Adair before-mentioned it appeared that Russian hackers were behind the attack. "Recent DDoS attacks against various other neighbors of Russia, [such as Estonia], have been quite popular in the last few years," he said in an online post....
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