Official site of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has stopped working. As reported in the "Twitter" project "low-orbit ion cannon", the site became a victim of DDoS-attacks.
About the beginning of the attack on the site Lukashenka was announced via Twitter June 10, 2011. Since that time, pressing the red button on the website "low-orbit ion cannon" led to the launch of a script that starts a series of references to the site president.gov.by for the purpose of disabling it by a large number of visits.
The desire to bring down the website of the Belarusian president creators of the attack explained that Lukashenko "prosral a country!»
June 13 at about 15:00 Moscow time the anonymous creators of "ion gun" reported on achieving your goal. As at 17:30 on June 13 President of Belarus site does not open, then he has earned, but intermittently.
Previously, using the "low-orbit ion cannon" organized DDoS-attacks on websites of "United Russia", the record companies "Nikitin" resource nationalists and others. (source)
Main page LEO ion gun
According to "Internet saboteurs" on its website, "Putinvzryvaetdoma - a tool for collective distributed ddos-attacks (from the English. Denial of Service, DoS) whose purpose is to removing sites from damage by overloading the capacity of the attacked server. Each visitor can take part in the attack voluntarily providing resources of your computer. The principle of the attack is based on the discovery of a large number of connections using JavaScript on the client side. "
The head of the presidential press service Pavel Easy confirmed that today there have been problems with access to the site president.gov.by. However, at the very head of the press-service site opens. For the elucidation of the causes of failures P.Legky advised to contact the provider. However, he categorically rejected the version of the hacker attack: "I think someone just very beneficial to present it as a universal catastrophe».
Updates. From about 17.45 (Minsk) access to the site was temporarily reinstated president, opened with no problems, but at the moment 19.00 (Minsk) he was again unavailable. It is noteworthy that the site is possible organizers of the attack is also experiencing problems with access. (source)
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