South Ossetian officials stated that two Ossetian news media sites
were attacked. Dmitry Medoyev, the South Ossetian secessionist envoy in
Moscow, claimed that Georgia was trying to cover up reports of deaths.[239]
The National Bank of Georgia website was defaced and replaced with a gallery of 20th century dictators, with Saakashvili added. Georgian news portals were under Internetdenial-of-service attacks
and reportedly the site of the Georgian Ministry of Defence was
attacked as well. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs site was
defaced and replaced with a collage of Saakashvili and Adolf Hitler photos.[240] According to the New York Times, Georgian websites crashed frequently on August 8.[241]
Estonian media claimed that the attacks are similar in nature to the 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia and were carried out with the same techniques.[242]Estonian authorities have pledged to provide Georgia assistance in cyber-warfare. Estonia has sent to Georgia two specialists in information security
from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Estonia, and Georgia's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs website is currently hosted on Estonian
server.[243] The Office of the President of Poland
has provided the website for dissemination of information and helped to
get access to the Internet for Georgia's ** after breakdowns of
local servers caused by cyberattacks.[244]
Georgia had stopped broadcasting Russian television channels across the country.[245] Web sites hosted on domains with addresses ending in .ru 「were briefly blocked」 from Georgia.[246] Some pro-Russian sites in other zones were also reported to be blocked.[247] Both actions were taken due to Georgia's belief that Russia was conducting an information war. RIA Novosti news agency's website was disabled for several hours on August 10 by a series of computer cracker
attacks. "The DNS-servers and the site itself have been coming under
severe attack," said Maxim Kuznetsov, head of the RIA Novosti IT
department.[248] On August 11, Russia Today TV stated: "In the course of the last 24 hours RT’s website (www.russiatoday.com) has endured numerous DDoS
attacks, which have made it unavailable for some time. Channel’s
security specialists say the initial attack was carried out from an
IP-address registered in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.[249]
The Russian internet news source, Gazeta.ru, reported that the Fox News
channel cut off an American-Ossetian girl, Amanda Kokoeva, after she
stated that she was attacked by Georgian forces and saved by the
Russian troops,[250] although this is not seen in the Fox News interview. The New York Times published an article about the interview discrediting the claims of biased treatment.[251] Fox News was also accused of censorship by the television channel Russia Today which showed its own interview with Amanda and earlier by several internet blogs and forums.[252] The video also allegedly experienced multiple problems with the counters available on YouTube.[252][250] The video rating and view count are not being updated and new comments are being deleted, according to some sources.[252]
Gazeta.ru stated, "... the counter was at 347,000. At midday the view
count on YouTube, fell without any sort of explanation to 45,747."[250] However the counter was seen being reset, and stopping at around 4000. As of August 16 the counter, seems to be up and running again. The reasons for the counter freezes remain unclear.
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