See no evil, hear no evil? Dissecting the impact of online hacker forums

• Main Authors: YUE, Wei T., WANG, Qiu-Hong, HUI, Kai‐Lung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Hacker forum; distributed denial of service attack; backscatter data; dual use; panel regression; content analysis; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4377; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5380/viewcontent/hacker_forum_sv.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5380/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/04_13042_RA_YueWangHuiAppendices.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Online hacker forums offer a prominent avenue for sharing hacking knowledge. Using a field dataset culled from multiple sources, we find that online discussion of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks in hackforums.net decreases the number of DDOS-attack victims. A 1% increase in discussion d...