As Internet ‘hypergiants’ proliferate, attacks on human rights increasingly common: studyBy Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 -- 3:15 pm
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Amid the rise of the Internet's "hypergiants" -- the massive Internet service providers (ISPs) and network operators at the core of Earth's global communications platform -- smaller media organizations and human rights groups have found themselves on the network's outer fringes, and frequently the targets of devastating cyber-attacks.
That's according to a recent Harvard University study (PDF), carried out by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which illustrated the challenges small organizations face in propelling their key issues into the global spotlight.
Harvard researchers found that between August 2009 and September 2010, a collection of just 280 sites run by human rights organizations were hit with 140 different distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.But those were just the most prominent instances: there were likely many others that went unnoticed, the researchers noted.
The problem posed by these types of attacks is that smaller organizations operating without the aid of network security experts can be bounced off the Internet by a massive influx of traffic across their domain.
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