Cybersecurity

Why would we get attacked? An analysis of attacker's aims behind DDoS attacks

Reliable availability to the internet and internet-based services is crucial in todaytextquoterights world. DDoS attacks pose a severe threat to the availability of such online resources – especially owing to booters – virtually everyone can execute …

A Note on Analysing the Attacker Aims Behind DDoS Attacks

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks pose a serious threat to the availability of online resources. In this paper, we analyse the attacker aims for the use of DDoS attacks. We propose a model that can be used to evaluate news articles for …

The Blind Man and The Elephant: Measuring Economic Impacts of DDoS Attacks

Internet has become an important part of our everyday life. We use services like Netflix, Skype, online banking and Scopus etc. daily. We even use Internet for filing our tax returns and communicating with municipalities. This dependency on …