Media News - Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Russian hackers target political LiveJournal sites
With many Russians using the Internet as a forum for government-free political discussion, recent attacks on the blog-hosting site LiveJournal have raised questions as to the hackers' identities and suspicious-looking motives. Early in June hackers based in Russia targeted LiveJournal sites linked to Limonov's National Bolshevik Party (NPB), which had been spreading information via Internet sites since its recent ban by a Russian court. Later in June, hackers again attacked LiveJournal, this time targeting Ru.Politics, a site for Russian-language bloggers to discuss political topics, as well as the site for the radical nationalist party DPNI (Movement against Illegal Immigration). Aleksey Roshchin, senior expert at the Centre for Political Technologies, concludes that these attacks are a deliberate attempt by authorities to stifle this new form of expression in the Internet age. (BBC Monitoring via Editors Weblog)
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