What is Cyberterrorism and How Real is the Threat?: A Review of the Academic Literature, 1996 – 2009

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Author(s): Maura Conway (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 29
Source title: Law, Policy, and Technology: Cyberterrorism, Information Warfare, and Internet Immobilization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Pauline C. Reich (Waseda University, Japan)and Eduardo Gelbstein (Webster University, Switzerland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-831-9.ch011

Keywords: Cyber Warfare & Terrorism / Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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This chapter critically analyzes the academic literature on cyberterrorism produced between 1996 and 2009. It begins by detailing the origins of the concept and follows up with a brief overview of the cyberterrorism literature produced to date. The remainder of the chapter is divided into five major sections. The first of these is concerned with the definitional debates surrounding cyberterrorism, particularly the question of whether disruption of data is too minimal, given the necessary motivational factors are present, to be classed as cyberterrorism and destruction is necessary. The second and third sections are devoted to untangling cyberterrorism from hacking and cyberterrorism from cybercrime, respectively. Section four is focused upon strategies for separating the cyberterrorism hype from the reality, while section five departs from the cyberterrorism literature to draw attention to an argument from the “terrorism as communication” approach that, although it dismisses cyberterrorism as an imminent threat and thus bears similarities to much of the literature discussed in this chapter, introduces a new and different rationale for same.

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