Did Russian hackers reveal a soft spot for the Soviet Union with .su suffix?

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/18/russian-hackers-soviet-union-su-suffix

By Raya Jalabi
guardian.co.uk
18 March 2013

Suspected Russian hackers last week posted private information apparently 
belonging to public figures such as Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian 
and LAPD chief Charlie Beck.

Much of the media coverage concentrated on the details of the information 
published, but perhaps the more intriguing detail is that hackers chose to 
build their site with the domain suffix .su – the suffix for the former Soviet 
Union.

The .su suffix – or country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) – has been around 
since 1990, when it was assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 
(IANA), the governing body which allocated global IP addresses and domain names 
to "countries, sovereign states or dependent territories".

Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union a mere 14 months after its ccTLD 
was allocated, .su has lived on and is administered by the Russian Institute 
for Public Networks (RIPN), the Russian organization that controls domain name 
registration with the .ru and .su suffixes.

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