Cyber Terrorism: Political And Economic Implications

This book is a cyber terrorism brief that outlines many of the recent terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of cyberspace. Much of this book is dedicated to illustrating the use of the global information infrastructure by terrorists for the communication and coordination of distributed terrorist cells, the gathering of target intelligence, and the use of cyber criminal activities as a force multiplier for both physical attacks and infrastructure destabilization. This book identifies the underlying technologies of the global information infrastructure as a means for presenting how critical this emerging domain has become. It then discusses the current attack methods and lays out a series of scenarios for key industry sectors. Lastly, Cyber Terrorism: Political and Economic Implications puts forward prevention and response policies for reducing cyber terrorism activities in the context of traditional information security objectives.

People and systems are vulnerable to the methods and processes they employ to get things done. This is because they learn to trust their underlying successes and apply this trust to future applications of their approach. There is a clear link between the elimination of trust and the instillment of fear. It has been proposed that the attacks of September 11th in 2001 (i.e., when the World Trade Towers were destroyed, the Pentagon was damaged, the flight over Pennsylvania was downed, and thousands perished) occurred as a result of asymmetric thinking on the part of the terrorist group al Qaeda.

When an opponent is attacked at right angles to their traditional thinking methods, they become vulnerable and unprepared for what is to come. This is known as asymmetric warfare, and is becoming a terrorist’s first choice of attack, given the opportunity. The use of jetliners as missiles never occurred to the passengers and civil defense authorities alike until it was too late. It was simply unimaginable, and this notion has played a significant role in traumatizing many who watched these horrific images. The application of the traditional applied in a radically nontraditional manner both seems to be unimaginable and frighteningly real when it happens, especially when it comes to technology. Those with the capability of asymmetric thinking have unforetold power to change and shape the future directly and indirectly through their actions. It is asymmetric thinking applied to technology that has become the countervailing power to the global information infrastructure’s ability to enact social, cultural, and economic change.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I - INTRODUCTION
II - THE POWER OF TERRORISM
III - CYBER-TERRORISM EVOLUTION
IV - GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
V - CURRENT CYBER- ATTACK METHODS
VI - ATTACK SCENARIOS
VII - THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE

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