Comments on: Kyrgyzstan Taken Offline by DDoS Attacks

By: Frank Redmond

Frank Redmond — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:45:17 +0000

I live in Atlanta, Georgia, i don’t remember my internet going down at any point.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:14:56 +0000

Nice bit of FUD mr. Jackson.
Nothing like some warmed up cold war left-overs. Go clean up you own garden and than start bitchin’ to the neighbors lawn.

Russia is pumping 1 1/2 billion euro into this dwarf state Kyrgyzstan and the Americans are bitching about the fact they will be kicked of the Manas military base. So who has to gain from this media circus??

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:32:01 +0000

Zdunham, that work is done by security researcher who shurely have contracts with goverment, see http://www.secureworks.com/compliance/industries/government.html. So he must keep an histeria to keep selling his services. This is a first thing.

The second one, that he, as a “security researcher”, can say only a one thing – “i see malicious traffic from Russia to Kyrgyztan”. But he made very strange conclusions: “The culprits in the attacks on Kyrgyzstan are most likely a group of technically capable Russian citizens recruited by Russian officials, Jackson said”.

This can be verified ONLY at police level with tracking people in real life, not with a snort in hands.

So, he
?) either linked with spy services – listen to their “independent voice” hehe
b) or telling those sweet things because of political or commersial reasons.

Conspiracy theory in this case are not so strange – because there is no any REASON for “russian officials” to do things mr. Jackson said. American officials, again, have this REASON – media pressure to keep their base, and so on.

By: navin

navin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:02:48 +0000

Yeah I know…the same thing still happens in india as well….not actually teaching…its more about how to use tools to exploit Government sites etc….No one bothers talkin abt the implications if U get caught, so guys think its completely safe. Then they get caught and spend the rest of their lives in jail!!

Infact many people think its pretty cool to be a hacker (more of a n00b) and learn L337 speak. U have no idea how many chicks I’ve picked up just coz I know a bit abt network security!! And U said nerds were last on the social calender….. I’ve been with more chicks than most jocks in college!!

By: FlashPratt

FlashPratt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:22:02 +0000

I remember living in Kazakhstan back in the day and there were 8-year old Russian and Kazakh children hacking each other like crazy at the “Computer clubs”.

By: zdunham

zdunham — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:12:46 +0000

Hey Guest, the research work on the source article was done by security researchers, no one affiliated with the US government, stop your conspiracy theories. There could be any number of motives here regardless of who is pro what.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:52:14 +0000

Guys, actually Kyrgyztan is pro-russian country, if you are not in topic. So this story about “terrible russian hackers” is a bullshit again.

BTW, they just refused USA military base..

By: navin

navin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:48:30 +0000

along with dominance, I read recntly tht a DDOS works out real cheap…. infact it costs a few cents per PC used.
and the more the PCs, the cheaper each one is (to be added to the DDOSing group)

Kyrgyztan has done nothing much to annoy the russians….its just tht cyber laws in Russia vary very much from those in the west. at the same time, they offer 100% protection to their citizens n case of exrtradition cases

This simply makes it easier for russian wannabes to sharpen their ’skills’. Some of them are really good at this stuff though!!

By: julian

julian — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:48:55 +0000

Interesting, I wonder what Kyrgyzstan has done to annoy the Russians?

The other ‘cyber threat’ that governments worry about is someone hacking into e.g. a power station or a railtract control centre and messing everything up.