An Exploratory Analysis of the Characteristics of Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks.
Web defacement is a form of hacking that involves altering the content of a website, resulting in repairs to the website code, loss of revenue, internal loss of productivity, and reputational damage. Limited research has examined the frequency of web defacements, the factors that distinguish them fr...
| Publicado en: | Terrorism & Political Violence Vol. 34; no. 7; pp. 1305 - 1321 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep/Oct2022
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