[sb057]

I'm not sure its even that. Nearly all of these "takedowns" by Anonymous have been websites that are currently under what's probably exponentially higher load than normal. Maybe some coordinated DDoS attempt, but it seems just as likely to me for it just to be crummily-constructed government sites buckling under high traffic.

[monetizeinfo]

Besides some data leaks you are right, most of these attacks are DDOSes. However is strange that russian authorities don't have the power or will to mitigate them.

[faeriechangling]

I'm not sure there has been no mitigation done, the site has almost certainly been designed in a way where a DDOS attack against it won't impact the rest of the organization. Mitigation is more about causing failure to not really matter than it is about completely preventing failure. The point of a website like FSB.ru is to promote employment within the FSB, to encourage public support of the FSB, and to inform the public of the services the FSB provides. The website is useful but not critical to the FSB's mission. It's fine for this website to go down on rare occasions.

The FSB going out of their way to proactively ensure the site maintains 100% uptime even in the face of a rare, massive, and temporary DDOS campaign is expensive and a waste of resources. If you're going to focus your resources on keeping a website that hardly even matters up 100% of the time, you're going to end up having your IT organization disrupted in a far more meaningful way. The organization as a whole has limited resources and is regularly dealing with defending against the most advanced APT's in the world from infiltrating its network and disrupting its activities. Good stewardship of IT means good prioritization.

[zja]

It’s probably not worth it to put some government agency’s page behind a ddos mitigation service before an actual attack. Those services can be expensive, and as has been mentioned in this thread, the FSB’s homepage isn’t really critical to anything.