Back to the articlePosted Monday 2nd June 2008 23:49 GMT
Time to prepare #
At least they know in advance that they can't handle realistic levels of people checking, so they can upgrade before/if anything real happens in the future.
Panic attack brings down Russian nuke pages
This story was updated to correct the name of the researcher. Reports last week of a coordinated attack on websites that provide Russians with advance notice of nuclear accidents appear to be unfounded, a security researcher says. Instead, he says an outage of the emergency information system likely collapsed under a crush of …
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Posted Tuesday 3rd June 2008 01:01 GMT
Cover up #
Russian citizens are sensitive to this. Maintaining access to live radiation level readings is Russian law. That law was made to help prevent another Soviet-style cover-up like that of the the 1975 leak. Any lack of data can be seen as a cover-up and possible violation of this law and its mandate.
It seems that instead of covering up a real leak, they are covering up the fact that there was simple failure of the systems for which they're responsible. The officials still maintain that it was a coordinated hacker attack.
Paris, because the Handicam Niteshot mode makes her glow like spent fuel rods.
Posted Tuesday 3rd June 2008 10:47 GMT
Are you sure? #
The website provides you "with advance notice of nuclear accidents ". That sounds to me like those accidents are planned therefore not accidents.
Posted Tuesday 3rd June 2008 10:47 GMT
DDOS #
Surely there is no real way to see a difference between a ddos and a large proprtion of russians desperatly trying to access the website, therfore they would have evidence of some possible form of cyber attack. If it were a cover up they would simply supply madeup data.
Posted Tuesday 3rd June 2008 17:28 GMT
In Russia #
In Russia you don't monitor radiation, radiation monitors you.
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