Novaya Gazeta DDoSed - May 2010

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DATE:
2010-05

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Russia

AFFECTED SITES:
novayagazeta.ru

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Down for a week

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
"Evidently ist was not amateurs…" (1)

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
High-profile Russian independent paper, often critical of the Kremlin, victim of sustained attack for the second time in 2010. ***NOTE: This report looks very similar to the attack on the site a few months ago, so may just but late reporting.

URLS:
1. http://politics.remedy.org.ua/560165eb/

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