Re: [Full-disclosure] [funsec] Internet attacks against Georgian web sites

[William McAfee <sec-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry, I forgot to link the actual website.

http://www.stopgeorgia.ru

On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 17:32 -0400, William McAfee wrote:
> I would like to point out one of the websites where the Russian side of
> things appears to be collaborating.  I have no reason to believe the
> Russian government is actively performing visible consequence attacks on
> Georgia.  If the Russian government actually is performing attacks, it
> is most likely SIGINT work, backend communications disruption, etc. 
> 
> On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 16:20 -0400, Static Rez wrote:
> > The only cyber wars going on in government are probably done
> > discreetly without any side even knowing it's occuring. it's called
> > SPYING. But i do not, personally, have any proof of this.
> > 
> > sr.
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Radoslav Dejanović
> > <radoslav.dejanovic@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         Paul Ferguson wrote:
> >         
> >         > Also, I wish to say:
> >         >
> >         > "It is clear that there are anti-Georgian forces at work on
> >         the
> >         > Internet."
> >         >
> >         > "Who they are, and what their motivations are 9at this
> >         point),
> >         > remains to be seen."
> >         
> >         
> >         Just for the record...
> >         
> >         There were in the past several such "cyber wars" between
> >         Croatia and
> >         Serbia, with the scenario not quite unlike this one. The
> >         scenario is as
> >         follows:
> >         
> >         1. there's some political tension between countries;
> >         
> >         2. someone on one side decides that it would be highly
> >         patriotic to
> >         attack servers on the other side;
> >         
> >         3. someone on the other side retaliates by attacking other
> >         country's
> >         servers;
> >         
> >         4. more individuals join in, adding to the magnitude of the
> >         event;
> >         clueless media joins in with headlines like "brave local
> >         patriots are
> >         hacking the (evil) other side into oblivion; we have won the
> >         real war,
> >         we're going to win this one too";
> >         
> >         5. governments do not quite understand what is going on, but
> >         they do not
> >         intervene because they can get some political points out of
> >         that mess
> >         (cracked government web pages are collateral damage and in
> >         fact good for
> >         propaganda);
> >         
> >         6. after some time, the "cyberwar" ceases.
> >         
> >         
> >         IMHO, what is going on in Georgia is a scenario like the one
> >         above. I
> >         don't think there's any real cyberwar between governments
> >         going on, but
> >         in fact local groups of people who believe that they're
> >         showing their
> >         patriotism. Therefore:
> >         
> >         - who they are: groups of individuals, not a state operated
> >         force
> >         
> >         - what are their motivations: showing patriotism and having a
> >         "legitimate" target to practice "cyberwar", as nobody is going
> >         to
> >         prosecute a patriotic attack on enemy country's
> >         infrastructure.
> >         
> >         - how to end it: it will end by itself.
> >         
> >         
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