Cyberwar — Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

January 2009 — A "russian cybermilitia" launched a distributed denial of service attack against the two biggest Internet service providers in Kyrgyzstan, largely cutting the country off the Internet. A few days later, Kyrgyzstan announced that the U.S. military would have to vacate Manas Air Base. Apparently the DDOS attack was part of the Russian pressure. Click here to see the story at computerworld.com.