At Home and Abroad : The Use of Denial-of-service Attacks during Elections in Nondemocratic Regimes

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Roberts, Margaret E.
Jonker, Mattijs
King, Alistair
Dainotti, Alberto
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Journal of Conflict Resolution. Sage Publications. 2020, 64(2-3), pp. 373-401. ISSN 0022-0027. eISSN 1552-8766. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0022002719861676
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In this article, we study the political use of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, a particular form of cyberattack that disables web services by flooding them with high levels of data traffic. We argue that websites in nondemocratic regimes should be especially prone to this type of attack, particularly around political focal points such as elections. This is due to two mechanisms: governments employ DoS attacks to censor regime-threatening information, while at the same time, activists use DoS attacks as a tool to publicly undermine the government’s authority. We analyze these mechanisms by relying on measurements of DoS attacks based on large-scale Internet traffic data. Our results show that in authoritarian countries, elections indeed increase the number of DoS attacks. However, these attacks do not seem to be directed primarily against the country itself but rather against other states that serve as hosts for news websites from this country.

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cyberattacks, autocracy, Internet measurement, digital politics
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ISO 690LUTSCHER, Philipp, Nils B. WEIDMANN, Margaret E. ROBERTS, Mattijs JONKER, Alistair KING, Alberto DAINOTTI, 2020. At Home and Abroad : The Use of Denial-of-service Attacks during Elections in Nondemocratic Regimes. In: Journal of Conflict Resolution. Sage Publications. 2020, 64(2-3), pp. 373-401. ISSN 0022-0027. eISSN 1552-8766. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0022002719861676
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  title={At Home and Abroad : The Use of Denial-of-service Attacks during Elections in Nondemocratic Regimes},
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  volume={64},
  issn={0022-0027},
  journal={Journal of Conflict Resolution},
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