Ukraine: Election Monitors’ Websites Under DDoS Attack

Ukrainian domestic election monitoring organizations and projects using crowdsourcing for mapping election violations (see GV post) reported [uk] being DDoS-ed on the day of the vote:

[…] web-sites of election monitoring organizations are experiencing DDos attacks. Maidan, OPORA, ElectUa.

Watcher.com.ua wrote [uk] that websites of opposition parties Frontzmin.ua [uk], Tymoshenko.ua [uk] and grytsenko.com.ua [uk] were also down due to a DDos attack.

Written byTetyana Bohdanova

Recent Eastern & Central Europe Stories

1 comment

Pingback: Ukraine elections: How to monitor and cover a major news event using social media « MDLF Knowledge Bridge

[…] is that such sites often become the targets for online attacks. Global Voices reported that the three non-government election monitoring sites in Ukraine all suffered DDOS, distributed denial of s…. The sites were flooded with requests from attackers so that they were unavailable at times to be […]

31 October 2012, 22:25 pm

Support Global Voices

Ukraine: Election Monitors’ Websites Under DDoS Attack

Translations

Categories

Support our work

Recent Eastern & Central Europe Stories

Top World Stories

1 comment

Join the conversation

Guidelines

Menu

About Us

Sponsors

Receive great stories from around the world directly in your inbox.