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    ARMENIAN CYBER-WARRIORS TARGET AZERI WEBSITES AFTER SAFAROV PARDON

    Infosecurity Magazine
    http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/27971/armenian-cyberwarriors-target-azeri-websites-after-safarov-pardon
    Sept 5 2012

    A cyber-war of sorts has broken out between Armenian and Azeri
    hackers over the August 31 extradition and pardon of Azeri murderer
    Ramil Safarov.

    Safarov was attending the Hungarian National Defense University
    under NATO's Partnership for Peace program in 2004, in Budapest,
    when he hacked to death an Armenian classmate with an axe. The act
    was to pay back, he later said, the atrocities that Azeris suffered
    in the Armenian- Azerbaijan conflict, since he wasn't able to kill
    anyone during the war itself.

    He confessed to the crime and was serving a life sentence in Hungary
    when the Azeri government put in a request for extradition, requesting
    that he serve the remainder of his sentence in his home country and
    providing assurances that he would remain in jail. The Hungarians
    complied, but Safarov was immediately pardoned once on Azeri soil,
    promoted to the rank of major in the Azerbaijani army, and hailed as
    a national hero.

    Outraged, a group of Armenian hackers has attacked 15 Azeri websites,
    prompting return hacking fire from Azeri cyber-warriors.

    The skirmish is the latest in an ongoing war: Azeri cyber attackers
    have hacked about 40 Armenian websites in the last two years,
    while the Armenians have targeted about 20 Azeri websites, mostly
    state-government and news sites. The latest targets included the Azeri
    Supreme Court, the presidential website and the official websites
    of Azerbaijan's ministries of tourism and culture, and communication
    and transport.

    Infosecurity expert Samvel Martirosyan told ArmeniaNow that this
    "is the biggest cross-fire in the Armenian and Azerbaijan cyber war
    of the recent years. Both sides have been attacking for the past two
    years: DDoS attacks, when a website simply becomes 'not accessible'
    and when the site is hacked and injected with unrelated content."

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