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A group of hackers calling themselves the Russian branch of the Anonymous Movement promised to launch cyber attacks on the websites of the Russian state agencies to support the opposition. The hackers announced their intent by posting videos on two micro-blogs. In these videos they said that the Russian government website will be subjected to DDOS attack on May 6, and on May 7 the same will happen with the prime minister’s site. May 7 is the day when Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated as the President of Russian Federation. The hackers said that the attacks will be held in support of the “mass rally against the illegitimate elections, ” apparently meaning the 5000-strong opposition rally, dubbed by the media as the March of Millions. “We will support this protest by switching off the state websites that are full of lies, and the website of the Russian government will be the first. Let these civil servants see the love of the people...

  For years, we have discussed the importance of appropriate cyber strategy and the necessity to preside over the main  critical infrastructures  to defend them from  cyber threats  of any kind and in our imagination we have always considered the US as a country at the forefront. While the cyber security experts analyze the progress made ​​in countries like  Russia  and  China  and emerging realities like  India  and  Iran , they alert us regarding the vulnerabilities of the main U.S. structures. This time to worry U.S. security experts is the state of its computer networks that have been penetrated by foreign spies several times exposing sensible information. The success of the cyber attacks, according the declarations of the network experts, is due the US infrastructure status that are protected by obsolete defense systems unable to fight against continuos incursions. Speaking before the Senate Armed Servic...