"Political Hacking" Is a Growing Trend

International Relations and Security Network (ISN) published an article on the increasing nature of politically motivated computer crime and hacktivism:

"A growing trend of politicized hacking or "hacktivism" is emerging. The incidents in Estonia and Georgia were most likely carried out by state-encouraged Russian nationalist youth groups and criminal organizations, as well as at-large volunteers. One German youth claimed on a web forum that, with instruction from a Russian website, he was initiating fully functional denial-of-service attacks against targets in Georgia in a manner of hours. In reaction to a Danish newspaper cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad, loose groups of hackers in Turkey and other Muslim countries cyberattacked that publication's website."

The report summarizes some of the related recent activity.

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