Livejournal Blog of the Russian President Medvedev, Falls Victim to a Cyberattack

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The blog of the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, was apparently attacked by the cyber criminals and regardless of being on one of the best blog hosting website; it was a victim to such blunder. Livejournal is much popular with government critics in Russia, who are now tending to believe that such attack may for one of the major bearer of news tightening up on the freedom of speech.

Medvedev's blog, which is located at the address of http://community.livejournal.com/blog_medvedev was unresponsive due to the cyber attack for almost a complete hour on this Wednesday, after which the service was restored finally. An anonymous Kremlin official did admitted and confirmed that an involuntary shutdown took place and the reason behind it were cyber attacks.

There are a total of 4.7 million Russian bloggers at Livejournal, which are believed to exchange much more information and critical views much more than the ordinary mainstream media. It is very frequent with such bloggers to conduct their own investigation on any matter and publish a report by the officials. Vladimir Ryzhkov, the opposition leader in Russia, who’s also a user of Livejournal blogger, mention on his website (website www.ryzhkov.ru) after hearing that news that "Possibly, we are witnessing a field exercise aimed at preventing public unrest during the State Duma elections in December and the presidential vote in March."

According to Alexander Gostev, an anti-virus firm executive admitted that that "Denial of service" attacks on Livejournal is a very uncomplicated, yet effective manner of upsetting the whole system. He also informed that this trend began recently in March, when on 24^th of March, the first site to be a victim of attack such was the blog of Russian anti-corruption activist, Alexei Navalny. He then claimed that similar game plan was uset at April 4^th, as the same "botnet," several software agents running that malicious software, received commands of attacking another popular Russian blogs.

Ilya Dronov, administrative head of the company running Livejournal, gave an official statement about the attacks addressing that these were directly aimed to destroying the blogging website and its users. Gostev alleged that finding the criminals behind such operate will definitely require a large-scale international police crackdown.