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1. Onnik 08.02.08 / 6pm

   Thanks to Google for removing the warning on their search pages. They were quick to reassess my site after the problem became evident.

   http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.oneworld.am

   Apologies to all who might have been concerned by the warning. Again, I am still unsure as to how the malicious code was inserted and more importantly, who was responsible.

   PFA Site is still listed as suspicious and I would recommend them to take a look at Google’s analysis in order to rectify the problem.

   http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.pf-armenia.org/
2. Ani 09.13.08 / 1am

   Still think this was part of the Russian coordinated hacking effort–here’s a new article on that (there are several articles together here, so look below): http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7619&Itemid=132

   THE CYBER DIMENSION OF RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON GEORGIA

   Alexander Melikishvili

   A growing body of evidence suggests that Russia’s disproportionate military assault on Georgia in the aftermath of Tbilisi’s failed bid to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia was preceded and accompanied by a series of coordinated and sophisticated cyber assaults on Georgia’s embryonic Internet infrastructure.

   The distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against Georgian websites began almost two months before the short-lived war between Russia and Georgia (The Washington Post, August 14). In July United States-based Internet watchdogs registered DDOS attacks against the official website of the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, which disabled the website for a 24-hour period. The attacks were detected by the command and control server in the United States, which had become operational several weeks prior to the cyber assault (International Herald Tribune, August 13; The Independent, August 17).
   […]
3. Onnik 09.13.08 / 1pm

   Well, it crossed my mind given the timing and the Russian malware link, but I have to be honest, why would they target two Armenian sites?
4. Ani 09.13.08 / 6pm

   Yours might be seen as not simply Armenian, since you cover Georgian issues, too. The other site is more puzzling, but they could have been trying to muddy the waters slightly by including some Armenian sites. Only a theory…
5. Ani 11.29.08 / 9am

   This doesn’t seem to be you (unless you’ve moved to Moscow)–do you know about them?

   http://eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/aboutus/
6. Onnik 11.29.08 / 8pm

   No, not me. A pity we’ve both used the same name, but anyway.
7. Fuat 01.07.09 / 5am

   Onnik,

   do you still have that chunk of code? If yes, could you please send it to me?

   Cheers,

   Fuat–

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