TY - JOUR
T1 - Cyberwar and the Russian federation
T2 - the usual suspect
AU - Magalhães, Sérgio Tenreiro de
AU - Santos, Henrique M.Dinis
AU - Santos, Leonel Duarte dos
AU - Jahankhani, Hamid
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - The evolution of the technology and the changes in the organization and control of the critical infrastructures of nations are creating a new combat front. The cases studied in this paper are related to the attack to the information systems and services of Estonia, in April 2007, and Georgia, in August 2008, occurring at the same time as the conventional military operation executed by the Russian Federations army in the South Ossetia. The Russian Federation has been repeatedly accused of this operations, but the data collected raises doubts and in the second case-study showed the existence of a poorly organized network, related to Russian criminal organisations, supporting the possibility of this being an instance of the Maoist concept of the Peoples war. This paper will also show that, despite the unsophisticated resources used in most of the attacks and to promote them, the damages in the selected targets were considerable.
AB - The evolution of the technology and the changes in the organization and control of the critical infrastructures of nations are creating a new combat front. The cases studied in this paper are related to the attack to the information systems and services of Estonia, in April 2007, and Georgia, in August 2008, occurring at the same time as the conventional military operation executed by the Russian Federations army in the South Ossetia. The Russian Federation has been repeatedly accused of this operations, but the data collected raises doubts and in the second case-study showed the existence of a poorly organized network, related to Russian criminal organisations, supporting the possibility of this being an instance of the Maoist concept of the Peoples war. This paper will also show that, despite the unsophisticated resources used in most of the attacks and to promote them, the damages in the selected targets were considerable.
KW - Cyberwar
KW - Estonia
KW - Georgia
KW - Information security
KW - Information services security
KW - Information warfare
KW - Peoples cyberwar
KW - Peoples war
KW - Russian federation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954448929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/IJESDF.2010.033783
DO - 10.1504/IJESDF.2010.033783
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954448929
SN - 1751-911X
VL - 3
SP - 151
EP - 163
JO - International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
JF - International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
IS - 2
ER -
