Moscow-Sana
Russia's Central Election Commission announced today that three cyber attacks from abroad targeted its website on the first day of polling for the country's ongoing parliamentary elections.
The Russia Today website quoted the head of the Russian Federal Center for Computing, Alexander Sokolchuk, as saying: “Since yesterday morning, the commission’s portal has been subjected to two attempts to destroy, the first of which lasted 6 hours and the second two minutes. Their goal was to detect weaknesses in the portal,” noting that “the third attack was launched in the evening Yesterday in the form of a distributed denial of service, it lasted about two minutes and was relatively strong.”
For its part, the committee stated that "the number of voters in Moscow who used the electronic voting system to cast their votes exceeded 1.5 million," noting that "the data it receives about voting indicates that the voting process is taking place quietly."
Yesterday, the head of the investigation committee on incidents of foreign interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation in the State Duma, Vasily Piskarev, confirmed that American non-governmental organizations defamed the results of legislative elections in Russia.
