With unrest in Iran, cyber-attacks begin

[IDG] An apparently ad-hoc cyber protest against the results of recent Iranian elections has knocked key Web sites offline.On Monday, sites belonging to Iranian news agencies, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were knocked off-line after activists opposed to the Iranian government posted tools designed to barrage these Web sites with traffic.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061609-with-unrest-in-iran-cyber-attacks.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/166714/.html
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/article/307627/

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