Responses to cyber terrorism / edited by Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism, Ankara, Turkey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division.

Series:

NATO science for peace and security series. Sub-series E: Human and societal dynamics, 1874-6276 ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberterrorism--Congresses.

Cyberterrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : IOS Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The one issue touched on repeatedly by the contributors of this publication is the difficulty of arriving at a definition of cyber terrorism. A NATO Office of Security document cautiously defines it as ""a cyber attack using or exploiting computer or communication networks to cause sufficient destruction or disruption to generate fear or to intimidate a society into an ideological goal."" But the cyber world is surely remote from what is recognized as terrorism: the bloody attacks and ethnic conflicts, or, more precisely, the politically-motivated ""intention to cause death or serious bodily h

Contents:

Title page; Preface; Contents; The History of the Internet: The Interwoven Domain of Enabling Technologies and Cultural Interaction; Institutionalization of a Web-Focused, Multinational Counter-Terrorism Campaign - Building a Collective Open Source Intelligent System; Critical Information Infrastructure Protection; Use of the Internet by Terrorists; WWW.AL-QAEDA: The Reliance of al-Qaeda on the Internet; Cyberterrorism and International Cooperation: General Overview of the Available Mechanisms to Facilitate an Overwhelming Task

Legal and Policy Evaluation: International Coordination of Prosecution and Prevention of Cyber TerrorismThe Internet as a Tool for Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism; NATO and Cyber Terrorism; Analysis of PKK/KONGRA-GEL Websites to Identify Points of Vulnerability; Summary of the Working Group Discussions; Author Index

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division."

ISBN:

6611733582

1-281-73358-X

9786611733582

1-60750-311-5

600-00-0539-3

1-4337-1139-7

OCLC:

437202848