What is the extent of the attacks by Russian hackers against Georgian websites?
According to Tom Burling, acting-chief executive of Tulip Systems, an Atlanta-based hosting firm, a flood of bogus traffic from Russia, outnumbering legitimate traffic 5000 to 1, was deliberately targeted to overwhelm the web site of the president of Georgia (president.gov.ge). According to new sources, Nino Doijashvili, Georgia-born chief executive of Tulip, happened to be on vacation when the conflict broke out, and he offered to help the government regain the upper hand from Russian hackers who had already shut down several government and news sites. They took over the web site belonging to Georgia’s Parliament and replaced it with an image comparing Georgia’s president, Mikhail Saakashvili to Adolph Hitler.
