Title :
DDoS - available weapon of mass disruption
Author :
Radunovic, Vladimir J.
Author_Institution :
DiploFoundation, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract :
The increasing militarisation of cyber-space comes in response to fears of critical damage caused by digital weapons like Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS). Understanding that the botnets are the key platform behind DDoS, we compared the costs of running a large-scale attack with the approximate downtime loss in a country-scale attack in case of Serbia, showing that DDoS are readily available weapons of possible mass disruption. Taken as a whole, this paper suggests responding to risks by combating cybercrime as the DDoS enabler, rather than by militarisation.
Keywords :
computer network security; economic cybernetics; invasive software; approximate downtime loss; botnets; cyber space; cybercrime; digital weapons; distributed denial of service; militarisation; weapon of mass disruption; Computer crime; Computers; Europe; Internet; Malware; Productivity; Servers; DDoS; botnet; cyber-attacks;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), 2013 21st
Conference_Location :
Belgrade
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1419-7
DOI :
10.1109/TELFOR.2013.6716157