Cybercrime deterrence and international legislation: Evidence from distributed denial of service attacks

• Main Authors: HUI, Kai-Lung, KIM, Seung Hyun, WANG, Qiu-Hong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Cybercrime; deterrence; legislation; law enforcement; convention on cybercrime; distributed denial of service attack; Computer Sciences; Information Security; Internet Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3420; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4421/viewcontent/Cybercrime_Deterrence.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we estimate the impact of enforcing the Convention on Cybercrime (COC) on deterring distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. Our data set comprises a sample of real, random spoof-source DDOS attacks recorded in 106 countries in 177 days in the period 2004-2008. We find that enfor...