It looks like some cyberwar is accompanying boots on the ground as Russian troops and tanks invade. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website has been defaced, containing photos of President Mikheil Saakashvili alternating with images of Hitler. Here is a screen capture:
It looks like nationstate-scale cyberwar may have become standard operating procedure in Central Asia. This lacks the scale and impact of the DDOS attacks against Estonian targets that effectively shut down the national economy until the connections with the rest of the world were temporarily severed.
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