A few days before the National Council elections, Austrian parties are experiencing something that is actually a daily occurrence for webmasters: cyber attacks of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) type, with the aim of overloading the websites. But how dangerous are such attacks really and why did the parties go public so quickly? A search for clues.
A cyber attack is something abstract for most people – and therefore also something welcome for party strategists to portray their own faction as a victim under attack from a mysterious opponent during the election campaign. When the word “hacker attack” comes to mind, many still think of images of hordes of evil hooded men breaking into other people’s computers to manipulate them – for profit, on government orders or out of spite. But this image is not always correct. The DDoS attacks that Austria’s parties are facing don’t require hackers. Krone+ explains how they work, what tools are used to carry them out and why no election campaign can do without hackers these days.
Source: Krone
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