Network responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022: a cautionary tale for internet freedom

R Ramesh, RS Raman, A Virkud, A Dirksen… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was followed by sanctions and restrictions: by
Russia against its citizens, by Russia against the world, and by foreign actors against …

[PDF][PDF] National internet defense---small states on the skirmish line

R Stapleton-Gray, W Woodcock - Communications of the ACM, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Il lI amson tack that of others. Two recent events illustrate the potential vulnerabilities faced
by small nation-states and suggest steps that others may take to mitigate those …

Handling Internet activism during the Russian invasion of Ukraine: A campus network perspective

M Husák, M Laštovička, T Plesník - Digital Threats: Research and …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 raised an enormous wave of Internet activism and
distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched with the help of common users across …

Becoming a cyber power. China's cybersecurity upgrade and its consequences

S Yuen - China Perspectives, 2015 - journals.openedition.org
1 On 21 January 2015, Internet users in China who were trying to access blocked websites
and smartphone apps encountered difficulties connecting to virtual private networks (VPNs) …

Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure

D Broeders, A Sukumar - Policy & Internet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The war in Ukraine has underscored the risks and threats to global Internet infrastructure
from geopolitically motivated cyber operations. The Domain Name System and core …

Nationalizing the internet to break a protest movement: Internet shutdown and counter-appropriation in iran of late 2019

M Grinko, S Qalandar, D Randall, V Wulf - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
To deal with a spontaneous civil uprising following a substantial rise in gas prices, the
Iranian security apparatus imposed in late 2019 techno-political measures and blocked …

Should 'RuNet 2020'be taken seriously? Contradictory views about cyber security between Russia and the West

M Ristolainen - Journal of information warfare, 2017 - JSTOR
Russia aims to create an independent state information system that ensures the network's
overall stability by controlling the Internet routing architecture inside Russia. A tightly …

Freedom on the net 2022: Countering an authoritarian overhaul of the internet

F House - 2022 - policycommons.net
At home and on the international stage, authoritarians are on a campaign to divide the open
internet into a patchwork of repressive enclaves. Global internet freedom declined for the …

The Telegram ban: How censorship “made in Russia” faces a global Internet

K Ermoshina, F Musiani - First Monday, 2021 - firstmonday.org
Abstract When, in April 2018, the Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor orders to block
Telegram—the country's most popular messenger—Internet users in the country respond …

“Free” as in Freedom to Protest?

F Massacci, A Sabetta, J Mirkovic… - IEEE Security & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To kick-start the discussion, let's first review some of the recent attacks. In the node-ipc
case1 a developer pushed an update that deliberately but stealthily included code that …