Neeka has posted translations of a couple of articles about a brute force Denial of Service attack which has temporarily closed down some of the more politically minded sections of Live Journal in Russia:
Just a few hours it was impossible to post messages that contained the following links: “ru_nbp”, “nbp_ru” [NBP is the National Bolshevik Party], “ru_politics” и “dрni” [DPNI is the Movement Against Illegal Immigration] (the last one is written with the Russian “p” because Latin script is still not being let through).
Sup, the administrators of LiveJournal in Russia elaborate:
A powerful DDoS-attack is being carried out against the LJ servers in California since Friday, June 1. The source of the attack is allegedly located in Russia. Servers are receiving 50,000 requests per second. The attack’s main goals are dрni, ru_рolitics и ru_nаzbol communities.
As a consequence, they’ve had to place filters in place which effectively stop users from posting to those communities.
Click through to the article for more, including the very funny, if slightly resigned, reaction of some users.
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Michael Averko 06.07.07 at 9:26 am
This story will have definite follow-up at several sites.
Michael Averko 06.07.07 at 9:30 am
Test to see if this URL works better.
James 06.07.07 at 2:26 pm
WaPo is reporting that the livejournal monitoring is targeting nationalist groups which may be linked to the Stavropol race riots.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/07/AR2007060700298.html
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