Cyber Terrorism Issues

Cyber Terrorism Issues

Cyber

Cyber terrorism is the use of (chiefly) information technology to cause harm, and with the intention of terrorizing a target group. Because of the ubiquity of computing resources in all aspects of modern society, global interconnectivity, rapid technological pace, and the availability of disruptive tools, cyber terrorism is an asymmetric (or uneven) threat. Cyber terrorism is not cyber crime, because cyber criminals wish to avoid detection, and it is not Cyber Warfare, because warfare is conducted between politically recognized nation-states.

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- US national center for counter-terrorism technology research, development and assessment at Dartmouth College. Funded by the U.S. Justice Department.
- Jointly produced by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and Carnegie-Mellon CERT (formerly Computer Emergency Response Team), Infosec Outlook is a prime source for information on technical, business and risk management, and policy iss
- Discusses cyber-terrorism, its impact on computing community and the rest of society, countermeasures, and ethical issues. Includes links to case studies, statistics, and websites on this topic.
- Cybercrimes committed against: persons, property, government. Details on what to do and how to report it. University of Dayton School of Law.
- London-based fundamentalist Islamic cleric with ties to Osama bin Laden talks of plans to use the Internet the target the U.S., Israeli and U.K. economies.
- An introduction to cyber terrorism: "The crime of "cracking" can escalate into terrorism when an individual "cracks" into a government or military maintained website."
- Cyber terrorism or "goodbye dear data" links and articles from a technical academic.
- November 1998 --Director, National Security Agency
- Feb 18, 2000 BBC coverage of US terrorism experts, who claim that terrorists are not just exploring weapons of mass destruction but also weapons of mass disruption. Media coverage of denial of service attacks.
- A white paper on the need for coordinated technical response toward information crime and terrorism.
- From the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)' Global Organized Crime Project: a compilation of news articles, speeches, congressional testimony, and other resources that are related to cyberterrorism.
- NISCC is setup by the UK government to co-ordinate and develop existing work within Government and private sector to defend against electronic attacks.
- Position Papers on Countering Cyber-Terrorism presented at USC Information Sciences Institute in June 1999
- Inexpensive and powerfully destructive weapons are available to more potential enemies than ever before. The Center is a nonprofit research and educational group based in Washington, D.C.

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