Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Turkey: Rift with Russia inciting hackers

Tensions between Turkey and Russia may have spurred hackers to take down hundreds of thousands of Turkish websites in mid-December, the country’s technology minister said Monday.

“The crisis with Russia and other developments in the region could have incited this [cyberattack],” Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri Işık told a local Turkish paper, according to Hurriyet Daily News, the country’s main English-language news organization.

The fraught Turkey-Russia relationship was strained in November when Turkey shot down a Russian military jet on its Syrian border. For the full article click here 



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