The number of web attacks which are not financially motivated is on the rise.“Welcome to the front lines of the 21st century information war”, comments the Wall Street Journal about an Internet attack that took place on the Free-Europe Radio server.Altogether eight websites belonging to the broadcasting service were not accessible forseveral hours. Symptoms that first seemed like a completely normal server failure turned out to be a calculated attack.
More than 50,000 maliciously generated site calls per second forced the service to its knees. The potential originator of this cyber attack: Belarusian President Alexander Lukaschenko. The regime presumably wanted to preventthe transmission of an opposition report by using Hacktivism, i.e. politically motivatedhacking. This should remind you of the end of the Soviet Union. Virtual attacks usedto be carried out on radio and TV stations before the Internet became so popular. For example, the Soviets used to interfere with the transmission [...]

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