As widely anticipated, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has heated up on cyberspace in the days since Vladimir Putin ordered his troops and tanks to invade.
This weekend saw the Kremlin’s official website at kremlin.ru brought down, along with other Russian government sites, in what appears to have been a co-ordinated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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