Do Hacker Forums Contribute to Security Attacks?

• Main Authors: QIU-HONG WANG, YUE, Wei T., HUI, Kai-Lung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Electronic commerce; Industry; Personal computing; Security of data; Cyber security; Cyber-attacks; Hacker communities; Information assets; Security attacks; Computer Sciences; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3226
• Institution: Singapore Management University

There has been an increased amount of discussion about firms needing to account for the hacker's perspective in protecting their information assets. However, we still have very little idea about how attack information is disseminated within the hacker community. In this paper, we study the role...