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Cyberterrorism

In today's world, where computers and communications systems are linked, it can truly be said that "everything depends on software." It is bad enough that this has proven irresistably seductive to pranksters. The potential damage which can be inflicted on our infrastructure - systems such as air traffic control, power, telecommunications, and the like, by a malicious person sitting at a keyboard on the other side of the planet, is mindboggling. So significant, in fact, that considerable attention is being given around the world to its military applications.

Source: Grabosky P 1998. Crime and technology in the global village, paper presented at the Internet crime conference, 16-17 Feb 1998. (PDF 21kB)

• Terrorist use of the Internet : information operations in cyberspace
  Catherine A. Theohary and John Rollins, Congressional Research Service. Mar 2011
• Terrorist 'use' of the internet and fighting back (PDF 419kB)
  Maura Conway. Safety and security in a networked world conference : balancing cyber-rights and responsibilities, 2005
• Cyberterror : clear and present danger or phantom menace?
  Andrew Donoghue, 2004
• Benchmarking security and trust in Europe and the US (PDF 601kB)
  Leon Cremonini and Lorenzo Valeri. RAND Europe, 2003
• National strategy to secure cyberspace
  The White House, Bush Administration, 2003
• Organized crime, terrorism and cybercrime (PDF 34kB)
  Louise I Shelley. In 'Security sector reform: institutions, society and good governance', 2003
• Putting cyberterrorism into context
  Kathryn Kerr. AusCERT, 2003
• Assessing the risk of cyber terrorism, cyber war and other cyber threats (PDF 195kB)
  James A Lewis. Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002
• Cyber terrorism : mass destruction or mass disruption?
  Vikki Spencer. Computer Crime Research Center, 2002
• The future of cyberterrorism : where the physical and virtual worlds collide
  Barry C Collin. 11th annual international symposium on criminal justice issues, 2001
• Cyberterrorism (MS Word 63kB)
  Dorothy E Denning, 2000
• Activism, hacktivism, and cyberterrorism : the internet as a tool for influencing foreign policy
  Dorothy E Denning. Internet and international systems : information technology and American foreign policy decisionmaking workshop, 1999
• Thinking about the unthinkable : Australian vulnerabilities to high-tech risks
  Adam Cobb. Australian Parliamentary Library, 1998
• EU Framework Decision on Attacks Against Information Systems

Hacking

• Hackers, fraudsters and botnets : tackling the problem of cyber crime : the report of the Inquiry into Cyber Crime
  Standing Committee on Communications, Parliament of Australia. 2010
• 2010 data breach investigations report : a study conducted by the Verizon RISK Team in cooperation with the United States Secret Service
  Wade Baker ... [et al.], Verizon Business. 2010
• The New Zealand Hacking case : a post mortem (PDF 409kB)
  Barbara Endicott-Popovsky. Safety and security in a networked world conference : balancing cyber-rights and responsibilities, 2005

Recent publications

• Computer security threats faced by small businesses in Australia
  07 February 2012
• Misperceptions about child sex offenders
  30 September 2011
• Cyber threat landscape faced by financial and insurance industry
  21 February 2011
• Online interactions involving suspected paedophiles who engage male children
  10 December 2010
• Cloud computing: Challenges and future directions
  18 October 2010
• Covert and cyber bullying
  26 February 2010
• Crime risks of three-dimensional virtual environments
  23 February 2010
• Online child grooming: a literature review on the misuse of social networking sites for grooming children for sexual offences
  06 July 2009
• Responding to online child sexual grooming: an industry perspective
  06 July 2009
• Top 10 computer security tools used by Australian businesses
  09 June 2009
• Industry sector and the prevalence of computer security incidents against Australian businesses
  09 June 2009
• Computer security incidents experienced by Australian businesses
  09 June 2009
• The Australian Business Assessment of Computer User Security (ABACUS) survey: methodology report
  09 June 2009
• The Australian Business Assessment of Computer User Security: a national survey
  01 June 2009
• New methods of transferring value electronically
  25 May 2009

Recent events

• International Serious and Organised Crime Conference 2010
  18 October 2010
• Australian Consumer Fraud Taskforce Agency Forum 2009
  08 October 2009
• Anti money laundering symposium
  30 September 2002
• Internet Crime
  16 February 1998