Seminar 5 : Cyber Warfare and Terrorism

This seminar is conduct by Mr.Khalid about cyber Warfare and Terrorism. At the beginning of this seminar, we discuss about the meaning or basic understanding about cyber warfare and terrorism. Everyone already know what is warfare but do we know about terrorism in cyber? it is a violent act using information or any relevant technology that intended to create fear. After that he share information about the article about "Al Qaeda Hacker Attack Scheduled To Begin November 11th". Al Qaeda is a group of people that being judge as a terrorist and responsible about the attack of World Trade Centre. The cyber-terrorism is the leveraging of a target's computer and information technology,particularly via the internet to cause physical, real-harm or severe disruption. The FBI define Cyber terrorism as " the use of computing resource against person".

After that he explain about other cyber violation. Cyber bullying use the electronic information such as email to bully or harass the other. Cyber Stalking use the internet or other electronic means to stalk someone. it is used with online harassment and and online abuse. web vandalism is a attacks that deface webpages or DoS attacks. Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks is a large number of computer in one country launch a DoS attack against systems in another country. Other cyber attacks is attacking critical infrastructure.it is an attacks to power,water,fuel,communicaion a re all vulnarable thing tha can be attacks.

Why terrorist use cyber technique? cyber-terrorism may become a viable option traditional physical acts of violence due to anonymity, diverse target,low risk of detection, low risk of personal injury, low investment, operate from nearly any location and few resource are needed to attack. All terrorist have their own strategy to attacks something. first step of this strategies is to Plan the attacks. they communicate with each other and posture for future exploitation. the using steganograpahy. They hide instruction and plans picture for their attacks. The images and instruction can only be opened using a private key to code known only to the recipient. second step is Recruitment. Recruitment is the life-blood of and attacker organization. after that they do some Research about the attacking plan and create a Propaganda.

Cyber terrorist can give a treat to the military. The target of the attacks to the military is commercial transaction, payroll, sensitive information and more.