Cyber attacks on Georgia launched from Russia: US firm

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Intense cyber attacks on Georgian government websites were launched from computers in Russia while Moscow's military struck in the former Soviet state, a US Internet firm said Wednesday.

It was unclear the cyber assaults were orchestrated by the Russian government, organized crime, "hacktivists, or others.

Tulip Systems Inc executive Tom Burling told AFP that numbers identifying computers on the Internet show that machines in Russia were used to attack websites for Georgia's presidency and a major television network.

Tulip took over hosting for those websites on Saturday, a day after Russian forces poured into Georgia in response to Tbilisi's attacks on a Moscow-backed rebel province.

Burling said the distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks began in the weeks running up to the outbreak of the Russia-Georgia conflict and continued Tuesday after the Kremlin announced it had ceased hostilities in the former Soviet state. Full article here.