Cyber-terrorism, if used correctly, can be one of the most devastating and destructive cyber issues man has faced since the dawn of consumer-grade computer products.
Most destructive you say, huh? Well, a cyber attack just turn the Baltic state of Estonia’s online infrastructure off and shout out from Internet connectivity in April 2007. Everything, from online banking to access to health care info to mobile phone networks was disabled for a period of time. Yeah, that happened. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia
To define cyber-terrorism, I can basically define it as “doing malicious acts that, in turn, may result in deaths or something close just to achieve either ideological or political gains (could be both) through intimidation and/or threat.”
But yeah I’m an average guy at school so don’t quote me on that. Some may define it as “the bad works of terrorist organizations for the purpose of creating panic and whatnot to people”. And by bad, they mean like attacks against information systems in a certain place, which in 2020, in the 21st century, can be defined as really bad.
Still, people are still not satisfied with that definition and they instead define cyber-terrorism as just “the use of technological stuff (like networks, computers and the like) to cause disruption and chaos for personal intentions.”
Whatever the definition is (and also, at this point too), you can probably tell that cyber-terrorism is bad. Really really bad. So bad that it prompted actions from both America’s finest organizations to solve crimes (at least in movies), the CIA or Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI or Federal Bureau of Investigations to put the nail on the coffin (I should say) to cyber-terrorism.
– Bryan M. Dumdum, professional columnist and IT analyst at swissfyre.com
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