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Georgia: Blogger reportedly targetted by Facebook, Twitter attack

Friday, August 7th, 2009 @ 11:12 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

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Countries:: Russia, Georgia
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, War & Conflict, International Relations
Languages:: English

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Español:	Georgia: Se cree que blogger fue objetivo del ataque a Facebook y Twitter...
Italiano:	Georgia: blogger sotto attacco per l'anniversario della guerra Russia-Georgia....

CNET's blog carries a podcast report on the denial of service attacks on Facebook and Twitter which apparently targeted Georgian blogger Cyxymu as the first anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war approached.

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