Any Port in a Storm's Journal

Breaking (?) news. It's Russians again :
Maybe this should go under a cut, but I have no idea how to cut here so go away.

Alright, so Milbury the amazing and wonderful has tipped me off to this.

TRANSLATED by an inside source named Google Translate it looks like this:

SUP admitted that hackers from the beginning of the week conducting DDoS-attack on LiveJournal, the service still works intermittentlyThe cause major disruptions in the "Live Log" on Monday became the new DDoS-attacks. It is said in a statement the company SUP, which owns the service.
"Now the administration may make LiveJournal accurate conclusion about what caused the failure in communication providers data-center LiveJournal DDoS-attack was aimed at the service," - said in a statement on the website of the company
he statement noted that despite the fact that "Live Journals" regained its work, some resource users still complain of malfunctions.
Since the beginning of the week error in the service reported top bloggers navalny , avmalgin , sergeydolya .
The administration service stresses that "the addressees of DDoS are not popular bloggers, the attackers are attacking IP service, thus, an attack aimed at LiveJournal as a whole."
As noted administration service, hacker attacks are still going on.
Popular blogging platform Livejournal.com, which hosted "Live Journals" on Monday for several hours was not available to users.
Then a representative of SUP responded to a direct question of the correspondent "Gazety.Ru" that failures in the data-center is not related to DDoS-attacks .
At the same time, one of the most active users Learn Malgin Andrew on Monday said that Livejournal.com unavailable due to DDoS-attacks on several popular magazines bloggers.
"It turns out yesterday from my posts here do not translate the LJ because, as I explained in the administration of LJ, in my journal was a DDoS-attack. In these cases, in the fight against DDoS they narrow the channels of information exchange for those journals that are attacked. Enough to look at what subject was the last of my notes to see who is comfortable with. At present, a powerful DDoS gone already for several magazines. As a result, LJ seems to be completely laid down "- wrote avmalgin.
On Sunday night he was the first to publish excerpts from the diary of a terrorist Norwegian Anders Bering Breivik - Breivik Norwegian shooter admitted to sympathizing with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin .
In March of this year, LJ was unavailable for several days because of DDoS-attacks.
The total duration of three hackers to blog service was about 19 hours. The main goals of hackers were the five most popular blogs, including "Live Journal" blogger Alexis Navalny.
In April, President Dmitry Medvedev, who also has an account on Livejournal.com, commented sitatsiyu. Medvedev said the attack on LJ "outrageous and illegal" .
"In fact, what happened, need to understand and administration" LiveJournal ", and law enforcement agencies" - then said Medvedev.

SO UH. :< This might go on for a bit.