Along with declared war that Russia openly conducts against Georgian state Russia also launched full-scale cyberwar that resulted in the hacking of Georgian news sites and web sites of several governmental agencies.
Web sites Rustavi2 and Civil.ge (leading news agencies) were down for two days. Although the third large news agency Newsgeorgia.ge was operating during the entire period, administration of the agency spread special note warning visitors that they could have a problem accessing news due to frequent hacker attacks.
As an answer Georgian authorities officially banned all Russian TV channels saying that they were one-sided and did not objectively reflected the reality.
The largest internet forum Tbilisis Forumi has been closed down for several days and is still inaccessible for visitors. Another internet forum politforumi.com that was considered to be prorussian was also hacked and as the message left by hackers implies it was done by people that did not like statements that forum users made in their posts.
Besides news sites and internet forums hackers also attacked web site of president of Georgia and the web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and MFA temporarily moved to http://georgiamfa.blogspot.com since Google servers were completely secured from Russian hackers.