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

• 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
• Cyberterrorism (PDF 31kB)
  Peter Grabosky and Michael Stohl. Reform journal, 2003
• Cyberterrorism? (PDF 165kB)
  Sarah Gordon. Symantec, 2003
• Cyber terrorism in Australia : the risk to business and the plan to prepare (PDF 593kB)
  Nick Ellsmore. SIFT Tactical Information Control, 2002
• 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
• Cyberthreat : protecting US information networks
  US Information Agency electronic journal, 1998
• Terrorism and internet warfare
  Nigel Thompson. Internet crime conference, 1998
• 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

• Hacking motives | Hacking offences | Hacking techniques
  Tony Krone. High tech crime briefs, 2005
• 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
• Friend or foe : understanding the underground culture and the hacking consciousness (PDF 74kB)
  Kelvin Wong, RMIT University, 2001
• Computer hackers : juvenile delinquents or international saboteurs?
  Suelette Dreyfus. Internet crime conference, 1998
• The hacker crackdown : law and disorder on the electronic frontier
  Bruce Sterling, 1994