A group of Russian hackers were congratulated in the State Duma this week for unleashing a crippling patriotic cyber blow on an Israeli Web site that published “anti-Russian” ideas in a recent article. The congratulatory statement is believed to be the first official public statement by a government official giving thanks to Web site defacers for knocking offline an ideological foe. The decree will undoubtedly add to the debate of the existence of state-sponsored hacking groups. Full Story