Hacked blogger seeks Russia probe 被攻击的博客作者请求俄罗斯
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A pro-Georgian blogger at the centre of a co-ordinated attack that hit Facebook and Twitter has asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hold an inquiry1.

一位前乔治亚写博客的人受到与Facebook和Twitter相同的网络攻击,要求俄罗斯总统Dmitry Medvedev举行一项调查。

The blogger, known online as Cyxymu, said he was targeted for "telling the truth about the Russian-Georgian war".

The attack forced down Twitter for two hours on 6 August, and Cyxymu now wants Mr Medvedev to find the culprits(犯人,罪犯).

Despite the blogger's claims, security researchers have said they doubt the attack was state-endorsed.

As well as Twitter and Facebook, search giant Google and blogging platform LiveJournal - all sites where the blogger holds accounts - were also affected2.

In an open letter to Mr Medvedev, the blogger, whose real name is Georgy, appealed for an investigation3 into the attack, during which the affected websites were bombarded(炮击) with data requests until they crashed.

"Your special services are able to trace the persons involved in this case and organisers of this attack," he wrote.

"And your court, the most humane4(仁慈的) court in the world, is able to find and punish them. "

'Big surprise'

He also said that last week's so-called denial-of-service (DoS) attack was not the first against his blog.

In October 2008 his blog at livejournal.com was hit and did not function again until May this year.

In his letter, Georgy said that "the entire world is speaking of the Russian hackers5 working for the Russian Federation6 government".

Those hackers were able to prevent millions of people gaining access to world famous social networking sites merely "to block one blogger" because of his "unpleasant and unacceptable" position, he suggested.

Georgy has posted a series of videos and blog entries criticising Russia for its conduct during the five-day conflict with Georgia a year ago over its disputed region of South Ossetia.

Last week he expressed his surprise at the fallout from his blogging, saying: "It's a big surprise to me that my blog has meant that 250m people have not been able to enter Facebook."

However, Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos told BBC News last week there was no suggestion the attack against the blogger was state-endorsed.

"It was almost certainly an individual who took objection to his blogs," Mr Cluley said.

"They took internet vigilantism(治安维持会的政策) into their own hands to try to blast him off the web, but in the process blasted Twitter off instead."

Spam campaign

Security experts at Facebook confirmed that the attack was directed at an individual "rather than the sites themselves".

"A botnet was directed to request his pages at such a rate that it impacted service for other users," the spokesperson said.

Botnets are networks of computers under the control of hackers. The machines were used to mount a DoS attack on Thursday.

DOS attacks often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.

A spam campaign, containing links to Cyxymu pages on the various sites, coincided with(与……一致,符合) and compounded the attack.

Although Facebook was back up and running within hours, Twitter continued to feel the effects into the weekend whilst LiveJournal has said it has continued to be attacked.

Taking to BBC News following the attack, Cyxymu, said that he had noticed that things were not right when he realised his Live Journal page was not working.

"After, I entered Facebook to say LiveJournal was not working and Facebook was down," he said.

"So I entered Twitter to say that LiveJournal and Facebook were not working, and Twitter was down.

"And so I understood that it was under attack. It is not possible that these three services were all down at one time."

The blogger, whose online name translates as Sukhumi, the capital of the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia, published the letter on a blog from a rival service.



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1 inquiry nbgzF     
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
参考例句:
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
2 affected TzUzg0     
adj.不自然的,假装的
参考例句:
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
3 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查,调查研究
参考例句:
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 humane Uymy0     
adj.人道的,富有同情心的
参考例句:
  • Is it humane to kill animals for food?宰杀牲畜来吃合乎人道吗?
  • Their aim is for a more just and humane society.他们的目标是建立一个更加公正、博爱的社会。
5 hackers dc5d6e5c0ffd6d1cd249286ced098382     
n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 );私自存取或篡改电脑资料者,电脑“黑客”
参考例句:
  • They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒,他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面,他们最终同意了。 来自互联网
6 federation htCzMS     
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
参考例句:
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
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