Issue No.08 - August (2007 vol.8)
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDSO.2007.50
News about distributed-denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government Web sites might have represented more smoke than fire, but it also revealed a new political battlefield. Networking veterans say public officials' accusations can make ad hoc "hacktivism" seem like a state-sponsored attack. When you add porous network defenses and a credulous media, you've got the potential for a real problem.
computer crime, DDOS, denial-of-service attacks, security
Greg Goth, "The Politics of DDoS Attacks", IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol.8, no. 8, pp. 3, August 2007, doi:10.1109/MDSO.2007.50