The FINANCIAL — Civil.ge and other Georgian website are no longer available for some countries including Georgia. The site stopped functioning since August 8, 2008.
According to George Sepashvili, Editor in Chief of Civile.ge, such behavior was expected from Russian side.
"They blocked Georgian sites, on the purpose that news will not be available for foreign countries. If you heard USA and European side declares that they are receiving resent news about this conflict from
Russian sites", George said.
"Russian hackers attaced Georgian sites with special computer virus. DDOS viruses were used for disablaing the system. Now Georgian IT groups work on to recover from this problem. Today Civil.ge is functioning but with
troubles", Sepashvili added.
DDOS is a virus which attackes Internet hostnames into IP addresses. A computer virus can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user.
According to The International News Agency Inter-Press, virus attack was not executed on Inter-Press news' web-site.
"The site had problems, when the conflict launched between Georgia and Russian Federation. This problem mostly was connected to the numerous users who were visiting the site. The site was overloaded and was difficult to access. Soon we decided to create different web-site address for foreign visitors and today the problem is canceled", Eka Beridze, Commercial Manager of Inter-Press News, declared.
The Chancellery of Polish President Lech Kaczynski offered a place on its website for the authorities of Georgia to publish information on.
This is because the Georgian Foreign Affairs Ministry Website has had technical problems recently, said the Polish Presidential Chancellery.
The English language website president.pl (in the section allotted to Georgia) says that the Georgian internet websites have been blocked by the Russian Federation. The Polish website also features statements of the
Georgian Foreign Affairs Minister and pictures from Georgia.
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