The attribution problem and cyber armed attacks

Finlay, L. and Payne, C. (2019) The attribution problem and cyber armed attacks. AJIL Unbound, 113 . pp. 202-206.

Abstract

In late 2018, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security suggested that “cyber-attacks now exceed the risk of physical attacks.” Yet the law has not kept pace with this reality. In particular, identifying who is responsible for a cyberattack makes it difficult to regulate this conduct. A state often cannot practically respond to a threat unless it knows from where the threat emanates and potentially who is responsible. Attribution of cyber conduct is critical from a legal perspective because the unlawful act must be attributable to another state for state responsibility to be engaged...

Item Type:	Journal Article
Murdoch Affiliation(s):	Law and Criminology
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Copyright:	© 2019 by The American Society of International Law
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50906

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