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Novaya Gazeta’s web site was paralyzed by a hacker attack for a sixth day Sunday in what editors called the strongest assault ever to hit the opposition newspaper’s online edition.
The denial of service attack started HackerTuesday morning and peaked Thursday when the site recorded 1.5 million visits per second, said Sergei Asriyants, the newspaper’s web editor.
“We had hacker attacks before but never as strong as this,” he told The Moscow Times. The attack was weaker Friday but still too strong for the newspaper’s server, he said.
Novaya Gazeta’s stories continue to appear online on the paper’s live journal site at Novayagazeta.livejournal.com. Asriyants could not say where the attack had originated or who was behind it but acknowledged that it was well organized.
“The only thing I can say is that this is not the job of amateurs,” he said.Novaya Gazeta’s web site was paralyzed by a hacker attack for a sixth day Sunday... more
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