27 February 2014, 15:25
Armenian and Azerbaijani websites attacked by hackers
On February 26, the anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy, Azerbaijani hackers broke about 300 Armenian websites; however, the governmental ones did not suffer, said Vache Gabrielyan, the Minister-Chief of the Government Office of Armenia. Information has also appeared on the Internet about the attack on Azerbaijani websites undertaken by Armenian hackers, which was dated, according to bloggers, to the anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms in 1988.
As reported by Kornelij, the author of the blog "Armenian Chronicles" run on the "Caucasian Knot", hackers managed to crack the DNS-system (Domain Name Service) of one Armenian company that registers domains and redirect all the websites to their server in Baku. Thus, the user could not get to the website – the pointers sent him to another location.
The blogger has noted that traditionally in late February Azerbaijani hackers hold an attack dated to the Khojaly tragedy; and Armenian hackers do the same in memory of Sumgait pogroms.
In the course of the attack, hackers posted on Armenian websites the information about the events in Khojaly in two languages, Russian and English, and a video clip entitled "Justice for Khojaly", the "1news.az" reports.
