Russian opposition newspaper comes under hacker attack
Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 26 January 2010No Comment
“Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta has said it was the target of a hacker attack after its web site crashed on Tuesday.
‘Today, beginning from about 9-9:30 a.m. [6-6:30 GMT], the web site of Novaya Gazeta stopped responding to user requests. Our technical service has so far failed to find the reason for the web site’s crash. There is a strong feeling that the Novaya Gazeta web site came under a DDOS attack,’ the paper said in its blog.
Novaya Gazeta, which is well-known in the country for its critical and investigative coverage of political and social life in Russia, has lost several journalists in the past few years.”
