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De:	"Konstantin Baranov" [ Profil ]
Sujet:	Russian largest human rights web-portal faces DDoS attack
Envoyé:	Oct 29th, 2007 - 03:21:52

	The largest Russian human rights web-portal "Human Rights in Russia" (hro.org) was attacked by hackers. This web-portal was opened in 1996 on the initiative of the Ryazan branch of the International Human Rights Society "Memorial" and the programme "Information Human Rights Network" of the Moscow´s Research Centre for Human Rights. Since the very beginning, it has been known for its multiple revelatory publications on grave violations of the humanitarian law during military conflicts in Chechnya and human rights in the North Caucasus. It is the eighth day since all web-resources attached to the technical platform of HRO.ORG have been inaccessible to users. The workers of the portal are working to solve the problem, but did not succeed up to the moment. The DDoS-attack by unknown malefactors started on Sunday, 21 October, at about 9:30 pm. DDoS-attack (Distributed Denial of Service) is a well-known way to temporarily block users´ access to a web-site. This method implies creation of a huge torrent of enquiries sent to the web-site from different IP addresses. It results in an excessive burden on the system resources, and consequently, users cannot access the web-site. The attack at HRO.ORG is ferocious with about 200 requests per second. So, it would be difficult to attribute this to some chance hacker. Certain Belarusian websites faced such an attack during the elections for President. Such attacks are an outrage and a real threat to civil organizations and independent media, and we must be united in fighting them.

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