New Tools for Cyber Terrorism

Abstract

New tools used by terrorist organizations are not what we think. Yes, they still have their mortars, IEDs, VBIEDs and humans sacrifices to explode in some populated area of a country but the tools discussed in this paper are not new at all, but increasing in the terrorists networks. The weapon of choice in the future used by terrorists is called cyber terrorism. The terrorists have been using the internet for more than a decade for its own purposes to further their causes. However, they havent used it as a weapon yet, but we would be nave to think that will not change. The terrorists are using more sophisticated technologies in the cyber realm and with their financial clout they could take down or disrupt our critical infrastructure or use a cyber attack as a secondary attack to a primary massive kinetic strike because the US has underestimated the cyber criminal and cyber terrorist.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2010
Accession Number
AD1019319

Entities

People

  • Alex N. Kuriatnyk

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Criminals
  • Cyber Threats
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Cyberterrorism
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Infrastructure
  • Internet
  • National Security
  • Networks
  • Scada
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace