Cyxymu
Cyxymu is a
War in Abkhazia, accuses Russia of trying to silence him using cyberattacks. Facebook came out in defense of Cyxymu, with chief security officer Max Kelly stating that "It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard."[2][3]
Before the 2009 attack
Cyxymu's
Russian-language LiveJournal blog was a source of information from Georgia for the news media during the 2007 state of emergency[4] and 2008 Russo-Georgian War.[5]
Cyxymu's LJ blog had previously been targeted by denial-of-service attacks in October 2008, rendering the LiveJournal servers unavailable three times during October 26–27.ongoing cyberwar between Russia and Georgia.[7]
See also
References
- CNET News. San Francisco, California, USA. Archived from the originalon August 9, 2009. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
- ^ Parfitt, Tom (August 7, 2009). "Georgian blogger Cyxymu blames Russia for cyber attack". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. Archived from the original on September 7, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
- ^ "Web attack 'aimed at one blogger'". BBC Online. London, United Kingdom. August 7, 2009. Archived from the original on August 7, 2009. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
- NEWSru.com, November 8, 2007.
- ^ Kim Hart. Longtime Battle Lines Are Recast In Russia and Georgia's Cyberwar Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. The Washington Post, August 14, 2008.
- Lenta.Ru, October 27, 2008.
- ^ Patalong F, Stöcker C (August 7, 2009). "Hacker fegen georgische Regierungsseiten aus dem Netz". Der Spiegel (in German). spiegel.de
External links
- Cyxymu on Twitter
- Cyxymu at LiveJournal
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