Some 300 Lithuanian web sites have been daubed with images of the Soviet red flag and are playing anti-Lithuanian songs, reports have it.
It seems some daft Russians are miffed that Lithuania banned the Soviet flag and other symbols, a few weeks ago, lumping them together with Nazi memorabilia.
Now a blizzard of cyber attacks are believed to originate from Mother Russia.
Lithuania joins fellow ex-Soviet satellite Estonia in having provoked the ire of Russian cyber attackers.
In the case of Estonia, the code barrage was apparently sparked by the decision the remove a Soviet war memorial from central Tallinn.
Russians launch cyber attack on Lithuania: media reports
By
Paul Hales
on Jul 1, 2008 10:03AM
Some 300 Lithuanian web sites have been daubed with images of the Soviet red flag and are playing anti-Lithuanian songs, reports have it.
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