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More speculation about government sponsored cyber attacks. This time its in the Russia vs Georgia sphere.

Here is a copy of a post to the Shadowserver mailing list:

We wanted to give everyone an update on what we have been seeing in terms of
DDoS attacks against Georgian websites. The last DDoS-related blog we had
in July involved the website for the President of Georgia. In the last few
days we have seen a resurgence in attacks against both the President of
Georgia’s website and other Georgian targets – both government and
non-government. If you are interested you may read more at the following
URL:

http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Calendar.20080811

Just a quick one with a couple of interesting links:

The surveillance system allegely sold to China for monitoring the olympics

http://www.quintessenz.at/doqs/000100004315/2007_02_01,siemens_intelligence_platform.pdf
http://www.quintessenz.at/doqs/000100004353/2008_05_11_olympic_surveillance.pdf

And surveillance made easy –
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926705.900-surveillance-made-easy.html