OT?: Cyber-War Breaks Out South Of Russia

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Cyber-War Breaks Out South Of Russia

5:30 am PST, 15 February 2000

BAKU. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Azerbaijan is going to take serious steps to secure its Internet sites from hackers following the outbreak of a hacking war with neighboring Armenia.

A new technical council to deal with the matter will include National Security Ministry experts and on-line providers according to a decision reached at a Monday evening meeting between the Azerbaijani Security Minister Namig Abbasov, newspaper editors-in- chief and computer company specialists.

Armenian hackers unleashed a devastating attack on Azerbaijani Internet servers Saturday night that is still underway.

The websites of all large Internet users, including humanitarian organizations, in Azerbaijan were hacked into and vandalized. The E-mail connections of all major Azerbaijani newspapers were severed.

"It can be said without exaggeration that the entire Azerbaijani [section] of the Internet is under threat," a source has told Interfax.

The Armenian-Azerbaijani 'electronic war' broke out in January. A site posting incorrect information about Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev appeared in January. Armenian State Television and Armenian Assembly in America sites were attacked in retaliation.

An Azerbaijani hacker told the national press that an attack on Armenian servers will be carried out over the next few days.

Link:

http://7am.com/cgi-bin/twires.cgi?1000_t00021501.htm

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), February 16, 2000

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-- Henry Howfambofergilfer (howfambofergilfer@hotmail.com), February 16, 2000.

I pick the Azerbaijanis by 7.

-- (ohno@mr.bill), February 16, 2000.

Scary. Wait'll we go into a depression and unemployed angry programmers have nothing better to do all day but hack. Got preps?

-- waiting (for@the.crunch), February 16, 2000.

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