Title
Learning from a distributed denial of service attack against a legally binding electronic election: scenario, operational experience, legal consequences
Abstract
E-voting is the stress point of e-government regarding security requirements. This paper discusses the first known distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) worldwide against a legally binding remote electronic voting channel. In particular, the security considerations, the topology of the attack, and the specific countermeasures are described. The focus of this paper is on analyzing the experience and providing lessons learned. The lessons based on the concrete experience of this case study have been classified by the legal, technical, and operational aspects for handling DDoS attacks against egovernment. Furthermore the relationships and interactions between these three aspects are illustrated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-22961-9_5
EGOVIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
operational experience,stress point,specific countermeasures,service attack,ddos attack,security consideration,concrete experience,binding electronic election,binding remote electronic voting,security requirement,case study,operational aspect,legal consequence
Countermeasure,Electronic voting,Internet privacy,E-Government,Denial-of-service attack,Public relations,Computer science,Computer security,Communication channel
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Ehringfeld141.95
Larissa Naber221.40
Karin Kappel38110.95
Gerald Fischer410024.25
Elmar Pichl510.37
Thomas Grechenig644964.07