Sentence examples for information attacks from inspiring English sources

Mr Putin denied claims that his air force had killed civilians, calling the reports "information attacks" and saying they surfaced before Russian planes took off.

Unlike extortion cases, in which hackers typically demand a fee for not disclosing specific proprietary information, attacks by hacktivists put companies in a potentially more precarious and vulnerable waiting mode.

Deception and psychological operations have been a part of warfare for centuries, and American commanders carried out limited information attacks -- both psychological operations, or "psyops," and more traditional electronic warfare like jamming or crippling the enemy's equipment -- in the Persian Gulf war in 1991 and the air campaign over Kosovo in 1999, as well as in Afghanistan.

In some hacker circles, group members invoke the names of Star Wars characters (search for "Boba Fett," a character from Return of the Jedi, on one of these newsgroups and you'll be deluged) to make points and some of the harshest comments are directed toward ex-hackers who now help large companies prevent information attacks.

Among recent steps to address the threat: Earlier this month Facebook announced it is putting $500,000 toward a new initiative at Harvard called the "Defending Digital Democracy" project, which "aims to identify and recommend strategies, tools, and technology to protect democratic processes and systems from cyber and information attacks".

However Russia's sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, was scornful of the allegations, calling them "a continuation of the information attack on Russian sport".

He warned that the consortium had prepared an "information attack" against Mr. Putin and his associates, and described the articles as "an undisguised paid-for hack job".

Speaking last week, Peskov said western spy agencies were behind an all-out "information attack" against him to destabilise Russia before elections.

She added: "All this is the same sort of information attack, the same sort of information war, of which we hear so many times and which, it appears, someone prepared well".

Atypically, the Kremlin made a statement before publication, saying that there would be no response to "honey-worded queries" from reporters, and that Russia regarded the Panama Papers as an "information attack".

This week the minister of information attacked the use of election monitors, so it still remains unclear what role awaits the Commonwealth observers who may soon be allowed to visit.