Hackers attacked Ukraines electio commission website Saturday on t eve of parliamentary polls, officials said, but they denied Russian repo that the vote counting system itself had been put out of action. The site, run by the commission in charge of organising Sundays election, briefly shut down. Ukrainian security officials blamed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a method that can slow down or dis a network by flooding it with communications requests. There is a DDoS attack on the commissions site, the governmen information security service said o Facebook page. The security service said the attack was predictable and that measur had been prepared in advance to ensure that the election site could be completely taken down. If a site runs slowly, that doesnt mean it has been destroyed by hackers, the statement said. A report on Russias state news agency RIA Novosti quoted a statement on the personal website the Ukrainian prosecutor general saying that the electronic vote counting system was out of order that Sundays ballots would have t counted by hand. The commission spokesman, Kostyantyn Khivrenko, called the R Novosti report a fake. The Central Election Commission issue preliminary results of the voti with the help of the Vybory information-analytical system. This system is working normally, he sa The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU the countrys lead internal security agency, said that the physical protection of the central server and regional components has been ensured. Any statements regarding the alle successful unauthorised intrusions into the cyber space of the Central Election Commission or the element the elections systems do not correspond to the facts. Hackers ar controlling nothing, Markiyan Lubkivskyy, an adviser to the SBU chief, said. An SBU spokeswoman told AFP tha attacks on the election commission site began a week ago, but so far have dealt with them. Outdoor video screens hacked? The cyber troubles came as Ukrain prepared for an election overshadowed by a bloody pro- Russian insurgency in the country east and the annexation by Russia the Crimean province in the south. Pro-Western and nationalist parties expected to dominate the new parliament. In another possible sign of cyber tensions, the Ukrainska Pravda ne website on Friday reported that outdoor video screens across Kiev were briefly hacked. The screens, which are used for advertising, including pre-election political ads, reportedly started to display scary and horrible images, the report said. Engineers went out to physically unplug the screens, according to t report. The report could not be confirmed, footage on YouTube purporting to capture the incident showed a stre screen abruptly switching to foota of destroyed buildings and dead bodies, as well as the images of tw nationalist politicians running for parliament, with the words war criminals. Mobiles Tablets Internet Laptop Apps Telecom Social Networking Advertisement
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