{"id":2183,"date":"2008-08-13T00:48:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T05:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2008-08-13T00:48:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T05:48:44","slug":"cyberattack-on-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack on Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\">New York Times<\/a> has a disturbing story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/13\/technology\/13cyber.html?ref=world\">Before the Gunfire, Cyberattacks<\/a> that suggests the Russians may have practiced cyberattack techniques against Georgia before the surface attack in what is the first case of a &#8220;known cyberattack had coincided with a shooting war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the attacks against Georgia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests \u00e2\u20ac\u201d known as distributed denial of service, or D.D.O.S., attacks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that overloaded and effectively shut down Georgian servers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Georgia, however, doesn&#8217;t seem to have noticed as they don&#8217;t have that many internet sites and don&#8217;t use it much in everyday life\/business. One wonders how a successful shutdown of the Internet in Canada would affect us &#8230; what would break down?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a disturbing story, Before the Gunfire, Cyberattacks that suggests the Russians may have practiced cyberattack techniques against Georgia before the surface attack in what is the first case of a &#8220;known cyberattack had coincided with a shooting war.&#8221; the attacks against Georgia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyberattack on Georgia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}