Russian attacks on Georgian Internet

The tanks and bombs are getting the news but either buried or ignored in the stories are the attacks on the Georgian Internet infrastructure by the Russians.

Media.ge reports the following:

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[2008-08-11]

www.tbilisiweb.info temporarily accessible at http://tbilisiwebinfo.wordpress.com/

As it is known, the Georgian electronic space is under permanent DDoS attack. On the morning of August 10 at 12 hrs the similar attack was carried out against the USA-based English language www.tbilisiweb.info website, following the Echo of Moscow radio station http://www.echo.msk.ru/news/532949-echo.html broadcast about the information posted on www.tbilisiweb.info. The website is temporarily accessible at http://tbilisiwebinfo.wordpress.com/

Source: media.ge

And Ars Technica has an indepth look at the situation:

Georgian government websites attacked

This is an interesting look at how the new wars will be conducted. Tanks and electrons.

And the mainstream media is reproting this how? (And I do mean outside the Science Tuesday pages of the New York Times.)