Georgian President Relocates Website To Atlanta

August 11, 2008 2:29 p.m. EST

Tblisi, Georgia (AHN) - Georgia's President has moved his official web site to the U.S., as the nation attempts to confront a military attack that now appear to include cyber assaults by hackers.

Georgian-born Nino Doijashvili, owner of Atlanta's Tulip Systems Inc., said the website for Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili as well as Georgian TV, were moved to the United States. Earlier, Poland had offered computer space.

The news comes after several reports that Russian hackers were attacked Georgian Internet sites, in some cases using botnets to block access. Georgia's Foreign Affairs office web site had been attacked with Nazi images replacing those of Georgia's President, one report said.

In July, Russian hackers were blamed for cyber attacks on Lithuanian government sites, similar to online attacks in 2007 when a Soviet war memorial was moved in Estonia, the country's capitol.