Routine Activity Theory

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 …

Victim routine influences the number of DDoS attacks: Evidence from Dutch educational network

We study the influence of daily routines of Dutch academic institutions on the number of DDoS attacks targeting their infrastructures. We hypothesise that the attacks are motivated and harness the postulates of Routine Activity Theory (RAT) from …