In Georgia, according to Shadowserver, an Internet watchdog group, hackers shut down the Web site of the president for more than 24 hours.
The prosecutor, Louis Conradt Jr., had been caught in a sting operation set up by Dateline NBC, the television news magazine, and an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice.
Earlier Thursday, a government-supported Internet watchdog group, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, criticized the search engine for its erotic content and threatened punishment by the government.
Judge Kline, 61, was indicted in November after an Internet watchdog group told the authorities that he was downloading child pornography.
On Thursday, for example, a government-supported Internet watchdog group criticized Google's Chinese-language Web site for linking to "pornographic and vulgar" sites.
Government Web sites in two former Soviet republics, Lithuania and Georgia, came under cyber attacks over the weekend, according to Lithuanian officials and an Internet watchdog group.
The spyware took advantage of three previously undisclosed weaknesses in Apple's mobile operating system to take control of iPhone devices, according to reports published Thursday by the San Francisco-based Lookout smartphone security company and Internet watchdog group Citizen Lab.
The search came after a hacker broke into one of Judge Kline's computers and sent the information to an Internet pedophile watchdog group, which tipped the authorities.
Late last month, an Internet privacy watchdog group revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had contributed money for a counterterrorism project that promised, among other things, an automated surveillance system to monitor conversations on Internet chat rooms.
The report, Pumped Up on the Internet, was issued by the watchdog groups LegitScript.com, which studies online pharmacies, and KnujOn.com, which investigates senders of spam e-mail.
