Watch The World’s Computers Attack Each Other In Real Time

25.09.2012 09:55

It looks like something you’d see in a 1980s film about a nuclear apocalypse. A screen in a control room in an underground bunker, where our mutually assured destruction was being mapped out.

Tags: cyberattacks

Zones: Tangled Web , Blogs

Russian Interior Minister Alarms Bloggers, Calls For Greater Internet Controls

05.08.2011 08:54

Russian bloggers are alarmed after comments by Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev suggesting that there needs to be tighter controls on the Internet, one of the last bastions of free media in the country.

Tags: cyberattacks

Zones: Features , Russia

Authors: Tom Balmforth

RFE/RL Journalists In Belarus Arrested, Website Attacked

05.07.2011 15:53

One RFE/RL journalist was arrested and another had her video camera confiscated as security forces in Belarus conducted what a RFE/RL journalist described as an "unprecedented" crackdown on July 3 as hundreds took to the streets in nationwide protests of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government.

Tags: Alexander Lukashuk , Alyaksandr Lukashenka , belarus , Belarus Service , cyberattacks , cybersecurity , flash mob , media freedom

Zones: Press Releases , Journalists in Trouble

Behind The Estonia Cyberattacks

06.03.2009 16:51

In the spring of 2007, a cyberattack on Estonia blocked websites and paralyzed the country's entire Internet infrastructure. At the peak of the crisis, bank cards and mobile-phone networks were temporarily frozen, setting off alarm bells in the tech-dependent country -- and in NATO as well.

Tags: cyberattacks , estonia , markov , Russia

Zones: Transmission , Russia

Georgian Government Accuses Russia Of Waging 'Cyberwarfare'

12.08.2008 13:22

Tbilisi has accused Russia of using computer hackers to wage "cyberwarfare" on Georgian government websites. The Kremlin denies the charge, saying Russian websites have also come under a coordinated attack by hackers.

Tags: cyberattacks , Georgia , Russia

Zones: News , Features , Georgia , Russia

Authors: Ron Synovitz

Russia Angry At Swedish Internet Law

14.07.2008 10:55

Could Sweden be the latest country to receive a dose of Russian vitriol? Moscow is upset at a new Swedish Internet law, which the Kremlin says is directed against Russia.

Tags: cyberattacks , ikea , Internet , law , spy , sweden , volvo

Zones: Transmission