Knocking Kyrgyzstan Offline

From January 18th until the end of the month, major Kyrgyz Internet service providers serving 80% of the nation’s Internet users were under a major hackers’ attack essentially leaving the country offline. SecureWorks suggested (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310906904622741.html?mod=WSJ_TimesEMEA) that the DDoS attack was organized by Russian “cyber-militia” however Russian network security analysts denied (http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=247281&cid=160) all the allegations.