Radio Free Europe says it’s under cyber attack
April 29th, 2008 | by Admin |Radio Free Europe says it’s under cyber attack
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Several Web sites of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been attacked, the broadcaster said Monday, suggesting the Belarus government could be responsible.
In the form of a denial-of-service attack that floods servers with fake traffic so legitimate visitors cannot get through, the assault began Saturday and continues, the network said in a statement.
The broadcaster said it is trying to restore its Web sites.
The attack is aimed mainly the site of Radio Free Europe’s Belarus service, but Web sites serving Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia and Croatia also have been affected, the network said.
Jeffrey Gedmin, the network’s president, compared the attack to communist countries jamming U.S.-backed broadcasts during the Cold War.
“Dictators are still trying to prevent the kind of unfiltered news and information that (Radio Free Europe) provides from reaching their people,” Gedmin said. “They did not succeed in the last century and they will not succeed now.”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, nonprofit corporation that receives funding from the U.S. government. It was established in 1949 to spread pro-Western news and promote democratic values and institutions in countries behind the Iron Curtain.
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