Discuss the changing motivation behind a denial of service attack.
What will be an ideal response?
The motivation behind DoS attacks may originally have been to punish an organization with which the perpetrator had a grievance or simply to gain bragging rights for being able to do it. Today, DoS attacks are also perpetrated for financial gain. Financial institutions, which are particularly dependent on Internet access, have been prime targets. Organized criminals threatening a devastating attack have extorted several institutions, including the Royal Bank of Scotland. The typical scenario is for the perpetrator to launch a short DDoS attack (a day or so) to demonstrate what life would be like if the organization were isolated from the Internet. After the attack, the CEO of the organization receives a phone call demanding that a sum of money be deposited in an off-shore account, or the attack will resume. Compared to the potential loss in customer confidence, damaged reputation, and lost revenues, the ransom may appear to be a small price to pay.
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