Topic > Traditional and cyber terrorism - 546

Basically traditional terrorism and cyber terrorism have the same objectives and share the same values ​​such as disorganization of state government, causing enormous economic and political damage and losses, a destabilization that will cause a change of government. But there is still some difference in some aspects. Unlike the traditional terrorist who uses bombs or other weapons to achieve their goals, the cyber terrorist uses modern information technologies for the same purpose. These are primarily computer programs and viruses, viruses that destroy the network and stored information, the so-called "logic bombs", "Trojan" programs, program sniffers and other types of information weapons. One of the best examples of cyber terrorism is the murder committed in 1998 in one of the US hospitals, where under the confidential security of the FBI was a very important witness, the terrorist managed to enter the hospital via the Internet and transformed the cardiostimulation machine, such as following the death of the patient. Very often, in contrast to traditional terrorism, cyber terrorists commit certain acts on their behalf...