“ONE OF THE BIGGEST THREATS TO THE FUTURE

IS GOING TO BE CYBERTERORISM”

-BILL CLINTON IN DECEMBER 2000

the almighty God and my other friends.

Thank you.

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Internet, the dark side of the Internet has also grown very powerful. Cyber-
attacks are now not only limited to individual cybercrimes, but even the events
related to cyber terrorism have seen a vast surge. This assignment examines
cyber terrorism, one of the major negative consequences of the Internet. It
also examines the potential impact of cyber terrorism, its possible methods, its
prevention, and control.

INTRODUCTION

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The term "cyber terrorism"was coined by Barry Collion and is relatively new.It
is often used in day-to-day parlance. However, if you ask people to define it,
you can expect a slightly different definition every time. It is relatively hard to
define cyber terrorism and confine its boundaries within a frame, because as
we’ve seen with changing time, the scope and boundaries of cyber terrorism
have grown enormously.
The definition of "cyber terrorism" cannot be made exhaustive as the nature of
crime is such that it must be left to be inclusive in nature. The nature of
"cyberspace” is such that new methods and technologies are invented
regularly; hence it is not advisable to put the definition in a straightjacket
formula or pigeons hole. In fact, the first effort of the Courts should be to
interpret the definition as liberally as possible so that the menace of cyber
terrorism can be tackled stringently and with a punitive hand. The law dealing
with cyber terrorism is, however, not adequate to meet the precarious
intentions of these cyber terrorists and requires a rejuvenation in the light and
context of the latest developments all over the world.
Cyberterrorism is described by FEMA as an unlawful attack and threats of an
attack against computers done to intimidate or coerce a government or its
people in furtherance of political or social objectives. A cybercrime is a crime
that targets computers and usually includes theft of intellectual property or
deliberately disrupting a process. A cyberattack is a malicious attack on a
computer network. Security experts caution that all U.S. federal agencies
should pay close attention to cyberattacks because malicious actors do not
distinguish between military and civilian targets.
The most widely cited paper on the issue of Cyberterrorism is Denning’s
Testimony before the Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism (Denning, 2000)1.
Cyberterrorism has been defined here as:

Cyberterrorism is the convergence of terrorism and cyberspace. It is generally

understood to mean unlawful attacks and threats of attack against computers,
networks, and the information stored therein when done to intimidate or
coerce a government or its people in furtherance of political or social
objectives. Further, to qualify as cyberterrorism, an attack should result in
violence against persons or property, or at least cause enough harm to
generate fear. Attacks that lead to death or bodily injury, explosions, plane
crashes, water contamination, or severe economic loss would be examples.
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Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism (Denning, May 23, 2000)

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Serious attacks against critical infrastructures could be acts of cyberterrorism,
depending on their impact. Attacks that disrupt nonessential services or that
are mainly a costly nuisance would not.

Cyber terrorism is the premeditated use of disruptive activities, or the threat

thereof, in cyber space, with the intention to further social, ideological,
religious, political or similar objectives, or to intimidate any person in
furtherance of such objectives.

To sum it up, we can describe "cyber terrorism" as the premeditated,

politically motivated attack which uses computers and IT to cause large-scale
disruption or widespread fear. The main targets of these attacks are computer
operated infrastructure (Critical Information Infrastructure) and other
facilities that are critical in nature such as that of e-government systems,
financial institutions, military installations, power plants, air traffic controls,
water systems, etc.

REASONS FOR THE SURGE IN CYBER TERRORISM

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  Cheaper than traditional methods.
 It is very difficult to track
 Cyber terrorists can hide their personalities and
location.
 There are no physical barriers or check points to
cross.
 Cyber Terrorism can be done remotely from
anywhere in the world.
 Cyber Terrorism can be used to attack a big
number of targets.

FORMS OF CYBER TERRORISM

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Cyber terrorism can take many forms, and the increasing use of IT means that
anything can be its target. Some of these possibilities of Cyber Terrorism have
been outlined herein:

(I) Privacy violation:

The law of privacy is the recognition of the individual's right to be let alone and
to have his personal space inviolate. The right to privacy as an independent
and distinctive concept originated in the field of Tort law, under which a new
cause of action for damages resulting from unlawful invasion of privacy was
recognized. In recent times, however, this right has acquired a constitutional
status, the violation of which attracts both civil as well as criminal
consequences under the respective laws. The intensity and complexity of life
have rendered necessary some retreat from the world. Man under the refining
influence of culture, has become sensitive to publicity, so that solitude and
privacy have become essential to the individual. Modern enterprise and
invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental
pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury.
Right to privacy is a part of the right to life and personal liberty enshrined
under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. With the advent of information
technology, the traditional concept of right to privacy has taken new
dimensions, which require a different legal outlook. To meet this challenge
recourse of Information Technology Act, 2000 can be taken. The various
provisions of the Act aptly protect the online privacy rights of the citizens.
Certain acts have been categorized as offences and contraventions, which have
tendency to intrude with the privacy rights of the citizens.

(II) Secret information appropriation and data theft:

The information technology can be misused for appropriating the valuable

Government secrets and data of private individuals and the Government and
its agencies. A computer network owned by the Government may contain
valuable information concerning defence and other top secrets, which the
Government will not wish to share otherwise. The same can be targeted by the
terrorists to facilitate their activities, including destruction of property. It must
be noted that the definition of property is not restricted to movables or
immovable alone as held in the case of R.K. Dalmia v Delhi Administration2 by
the Supreme Court.

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AIR 1962 SC 1821

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(III) Demolition of e-governance base:

The aim of e-governance is to make the interaction of the citizens with the
government offices hassle free and to share information in a free and
transparent manner. It further makes the right to information a meaningful
reality. In a democracy, people govern themselves and they cannot govern
themselves properly unless they are aware of social, political, economic and
other issues confronting them. To enable them to make a proper judgment on
those issues, they must have the benefit of a range of opinions on those issues.
Right to receive and impart information is implicit in free speech. This, right to
receive information is, however, not absolute but is subject to reasonable
restrictions which may be imposed by the Government in public interest.

(IV) Distributed denial of services attack:

The cyber terrorists may also use the method of distributed denial of services
(DDOS) to overburden the Government and its agencies electronic bases. This
is made possible by first infecting several unprotected computers by way of
virus attacks and then taking control of them. Once control is obtained, they
can be manipulated from any locality by the terrorists. These infected
computers are then made to send information or demand in such a large
number that the server of the victim collapses. Further, due to this
unnecessary Internet traffic the legitimate traffic is prohibited from reaching
the Government or its agencies computers. This results in immense pecuniary
and strategic loss to the government and its agencies.
It must be noted that thousands of compromised computers can be used to
simultaneously attack a single host, thus making its electronic existence
invisible to the genuine and legitimate citizens and end users. The law in this
regard is crystal clear.

(V) Network damage and disruptions:

The main aim of cyber terrorist activities is to cause networks damage and
their disruptions. This activity may divert the attention of the security agencies
for the time being thus giving the terrorists extra time and makes their task
comparatively easier. This process may involve a combination of computer
tampering, virus attacks, hacking, etc.

Few Other Modes of Cyber Terrorism:

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 (i) Targeted scanning, probing and reconnaissance of networks and IT
infrastructure, which can be a pre-cursor to hacking and focused
attacks and total or partial disruption of e-governance, public and
banking services.
(ii) Large scale defacement and semantic attacks on website which can
lead to national embarrassment, total or partial disruption of
services, dissemination of false or misleading information, etc.
(iii) Malicious code attacks, like virus, worms, trojans and bonnets, which
can target large and key national and economic databases like tax
information networks, citizen databases or hospital information
systems. and control systems of sectors like power, petroleum,
transport and air.
(iv) Large scale SPAM attacks which can target entities like internet
service provider networks, large corporate networks or key
government networks.
(v) Identity Theft Attacks including large-scale spoofing, phishing and
social engineering attacks which can target users of banks, large e-
commerce organization, key e-governance entities, etc. and lead to
loss of sensitive personal data, monetary loss and loss of image and
trust.
(vi) Domain name server attacks which can target country level domain
registry systems like NIXI “.1N" registry
(vii) Application level attacks, i.e., exploitation of inherent vulnerabilities
in the code of application software like the web, mails or databases,
which can target e-governance, e-commerce, business and banking
applications.
(viii) Infrastructure attacks, i.e., Attacks such as denial of service attacks,
distributed denial of service attacks, corruption of software and
control systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) and Centralised or Distributed Control System (DCS),
Gateways of internet service providers and data networks, infection
of programmable Logic Control (PLC) systems by sophisticated
malware such as Stuxnet, leading to total or partial disruption of
services or activities in one or more critical sectors such as energy,
transport, telecommunications and emergency services.
(ix) Router Level attacks which can target gateway/ Internet service
provider routers, routers of large and key economic. targets like bank
networks and corporate networks and Wi-Fi Routers used by small

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 offices and home users, which can lead to total or partial disruption
of internet traffic or online economic activities.

WHO ARE THE CYBER TERRORISTS?

Cyber terrorism potentially can be carried out by anyone with access to the
Internet. Thisincludes anyone with a computer (and a modem), and as the

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technology becomes more sophisticated,may include anyone with cellular
phones, wireless personal digital assistant (PDAs),and other wireless, handheld
devices.
The next cyber terrorist may be a world away or rightnext door as long as they
have Internet access and the requisite knowledge. Accordingly, cyberterrorists
may be domestic or foreign, with few limits on their actual location.Cyber
terrorists may act alone, as members of terrorist groups, or as proxies for
terroristgroups. For example, in Hanover, Germany, in the 1980s, criminal
hackers hired out theirservices to a terrorist group. Potential cyber terrorists
also may include disgruntled current orformer employees of a variety of
private or public institutions. Cyber terrorists are likely to bevery comfortable
using computers and the Internet. In everyday life, people use the tools
thatthey know and are comfortable with, including tools for criminal or
destructive activities. Asthe Internet becomes an increasingly more central
part of daily life, future terrorists increasinglywill be more likely to use the
Internet to plan and carry out terrorist activities. Whyendanger one’s life with
explosives or weapons of mass destruction when you can sit in frontof a
computer and attack your enemy with almost total anonymity?

Today, most criminal hacking, or “cracking,” is accomplished by one of three

methods:
 DoS (denial of service), in which the attacker overloads the server and
shuts the system down;
 actual destruction of information (although erasure of information
usually is difficult to do effectively if their backup systems are in place);
and
 alteration of information, or “spoofing” (which is more difficult to
safeguard against, but also can be mitigated with the use of backup
systems).
Hackers are able to access computers via a number of routes, including poorly
protectedpasswords, liberal access privileges, or dormant accounts of former
employees. Hacking isfacilitated by laxly enforced security policies (Copeland
2000). Currently, “parasites” are ofgreat concern as a type of cyber-attack.
Parasites are small computer programs that remain incomputer systems and
slowly corrupt the system and its backups, thus, damaging the informationin
the system. These parasitic programs can cause systems to perform the wrong
tasks.
They also can spoof data, thus causing record alterations with troublesome
effects.Much of the basic knowledge needed to carry out acts of cyber
terrorism is readilyavailable through the Internet. Many hacking tools can be

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downloaded freely from theInternet through quick and easy searches. The
beginner requires only knowledge of Englishand the capability to follow
directions.

SOME MAJOR INCIDENTS OF CYBER TERRORISM

The increasing reports of cyber terrorism in India and around the world
indicate the wide range of facilities which are vulnerable to it because of the

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use of IT. Reports of cyber terrorism around the world include the July, 2009
cyber-attacks against the US and South Korea3, the Estonia 2007 cyber-attacks
and the Georgia 2008 cyber-attacks where the Internet servers, government
and political agencies, e-banking services, etc., were attacked through
distributed denial of service attacks, mass e-mail, spamming and website
defacements. Another form of cyber-attack was the landing of a US unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) in Iran by a spoofing attack through the feeding of false
information to the drone. Apart from these, the onset of viruses like Stuxnet
and Duqu which are directed at industrial sabotage are a major concern.
Alarmingly, the Stuxnet virus was first used to attack Tehran's nuclear
programme, which destroyed its nuclear centrifuges by attacking the PLCs in
2010.

The two major attacks in India that shook the country and involved cyber
terrorism are:

26/11 Mumbai Attacks: Terrorists communicated with handlers in Pakistan

through Callphonex using VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol).The accused
communicated to terrorists with an email id Kharak_telco@yahoo.com which
was accessed from 10 different IP addresses.
Ahmedabad Bomb Blast (26-07-08): A mail with id alarbi_gujrat@ yahoo.com
was being sent by a group of Terrorists.Person named Kenneth Haywood’s
unsecured WIFI router in his house was being misused by terrorists.3 more
mails were sent after the blast with the same misuse of unsecured WIFI
routers.
Apart from this various other cyber-attacks similar to those described above
have been carried out. A total of 90 in 2008, 119 in 2009, 252 in 2010 and 219
in 2011 Indian government websites have reported to have been
hacked.Currently, the Delhi police has been directed by the courts in an
application (titled Tanikella Rastogi Associates v. State) under Sections 156(3)
and 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code to investigate the hacking of hundreds
of Indian and international websites, including critical government websites, by
Pakistan based group of hackers PakcyberEaglez.
Another example is the hacking of the systems of the DefenceResearch and
Development Organisation (DRDO) in 2013. This led to the leak of thousands of
confidential documents relating to Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), the
country's highest decision-making body on security affairs to a server in China.

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Syed Balkhi: 25 Biggest Cyber Attacks in History

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The use of computers in the carrying out of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai
intensified the need for a legislation dealing with cyber terrorism, and this was
part of the reason for the passing of the Amendment Act which introduced the
provisions dealing with cyber terrorism. However, these provisions are still
inapplicable to the actual use made of the IT by the terrorists, who did not
attack the computers or IT systems, but, instead exploited them to aid their
purpose. For instance, conventional cell phones and VoIP were used to
command and control the attack, Google Earth was used to plan the mission, a
picture posted on the Internet of commandos landing on the roof of the hotel
was used by the terrorists to ambush the attack and the computer databases
of the hotel were accessed to identify and kill guests from other countries like
the US and UK65. The use of computers in the 26/11 attacks indicates an
indirect from of cyber terrorism, where the easily and publicly available
information on computers was used for perpetrating terrorism.

Few other global notable incidents of cyber terrorism are mentioned below:

• In 1998, ethnic Tamil guerrillas swamped Sri Lankan embassies with 800 e-
mails a day over a two-week period. The messages read "We are the Internet
Black Tigers and we're doing this to disrupt your communications." Intelligence
authorities characterized it as the first known attack by terrorists against a
country's computer systems.

• During the Kosovo conflict in 1999, NATO computers were blasted with e-
mail bombs and hit with denial-of-service attacks by hacktivists protesting the
NATO bombings. In addition, businesses, public organizations, and academic
institutes received highly politicized virus-laden e-mails from a range of Eastern
European countries, according to reports. Web defacements were also
common.

• Since December 1997, the Electronic Disturbance Theatre (EDT) has been
conducting Web sit-ins against various sites in support of the Mexican
Zapatistas. At a designated time, thousands of protestors point their browsers
to a target site using software that floods the target with rapid and repeated
download requests. EDT's software has also been used by animal rights groups
against organizations said to abuse animals. Electro hippies, another group of
hacktivists, conducted Web sit-ins against the WTO when they met in Seattle in
late 1999.

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One of the worst incidents of cyber terrorists at work was when crackers in
Romania illegally gained access to the computers controlling the life support
systems at an Antarctic research station, endangering the 58 scientists
involved. More recently, in May 2007 Estonia was subjected to a mass cyber-
attack by hackers inside the Russian Federation which some evidence suggests
was coordinated by the Russian government, though Russian officials deny any
knowledge of this. This attack was apparently in response to the removal of a
Russian World War II war memorial from downtown Estonia.

INDIAN LAW ON CYBER TERRORISM

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Section 66F along with Sections 70, 70A and 70B comprise the sections of the
IT Act dealing with cyber terrorism. Section 66F reads as follow:

(1) Whoever, -
(A) with intent to threaten the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India
or to strike terror in the people or any section of the people by –
(i) denying or cause the denial of access to any person authorized to access
computer resource; or
(ii) attempting to penetrate or access a computer resource without
authorisation or exceeding authorized access; or
(iii) introducing or causing to introduce any Computer Contaminant.
and by means of such conduct causes or is likely to cause death or injuries to
persons or damage to or destruction of property or disrupts or knowing that it
is likely to cause damage or disruption of supplies or services essential to the
life of the community or adversely affect the critical information infrastructure
specified under section 70, or
(B) knowingly or intentionally penetrates or accesses a computer resource
without authorisation or exceeding authorized access, and by means of such
conduct obtains access to information, data or computer database that is
restricted for reasons of the security of the State or foreign relations; or any
restricted information, data or computer database, with reasons to believe
that such information, data or computer database so obtained may be used to
cause or likely to cause injury to the interests of the sovereignty and integrity
of India, the security of the State, friendlyrelations with foreign States, public
order, decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or
incitement to an offence, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, group of
individuals or otherwise, commits the offence of cyber terrorism.

(2) Whoever commits or conspires to commit cyber terrorism shall be

punishable with imprisonment which may extend to imprisonment for life’.

From the above definition, it could be inferred that, cyber terrorism is anact of
hacking, blocking and /or computer contaminating in order to restrict
legallyauthorized persons to access computer resources in general, and /or to
gain or obtain unauthorized access to any information which is a ‘restricted
informationfor the purpose of security of the state, or foreign relation etc.
These are gruesomeacts which is done with an intention to threaten the
security, sovereignty andintegrity of India or strike terror in the minds of
people or a section of people; andwhich may result in death and injury to

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people, damage to properties, disruption of civil services which are essential to
the life of a community, and also affects thecritical information infrastructure.

Essential Ingredients of Section 66F:

 There should be criminal intention of cyber terrorist

 The accused cyber terrorist must deny or cause to deny any authorized
person access to computer resource
 Such conduct causes death or injury to any person or property
 The cybercriminal accesses restricted information data or computer
database which are important for the security of the state or its foreign
relations.

Critical Information Infrastructure

Section 70 of the Information technology act, 2000 (amended in 2008)

describes protected system andregulations related to it as follows: (1) The
appropriate Government may, by notification in the
OfficialGazette, declare any computer resource which directly or indirectly
affects the facility of CriticalInformation Infrastructure, to be a protected
system. Explanation: For the purposes of this section, "CriticalInformation
Infrastructure" means the computer resource, the incapacitation or
destruction of which, shallhave debilitating impact on national security,
economy, public health or safety.

Critical Information Infrastructure is a computer resource, the incapacitation or

destruction of which will have debilitating impact on national security,
economy, public health or safety. Declaration as protected system even
amounts to copyright4.

National Nodal Agency

The National Nodal Agency is the body designated by the central government
for the purposes of protection of the Critical Information Infrastructure,
including research and development. The National Critical Information
Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) of the National Technical Research
Organisation has been designated as the nodal agency under Section 70A of
the IT Act.

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B.N.Firos v. State of Kerala, AIR 2006 Ker 279

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 LATEST CASE LAWS
Kumar v/s Whiteley (2013) In this case, the accused gained unauthorized
access to the Joint Academic Network (JANET) and deleted, added files and
changed the passwords to deny access to the authorized users.Investigations
had revealed that Kumar was logging on to the BSNL broadband Internet
connection as if he was the authorized genuine user and ‘made alteration in
the computer database pertaining to broadband Internet user accounts’ of the
subscribers. The CBI had registered a cyber-crime case against Kumar and
carried out investigations on the basis of a complaint by the Press Information
Bureau, Chennai, which detected the unauthorised use of broadband Internet.
The complaint also stated that the subscribers had incurred a loss of Rs 38,248
due to Kumar’s wrongful act. He used to ‘hack’ sites from Bangalore, Chennai
and other cities too, they said.
The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, Chennai, sentenced N
G Arun Kumar, the techie from Bangalore to undergo a rigorous imprisonment
for one year with a fine of Rs 5,000 under section 420 IPC (cheating) and
Section 66 of IT Act (Computer related Offense).

Sanjay Kumar vs State of Haryana (2013): The accused was also looking after
the Software System of a bank. He had access to their accounting system
which was computerized and was also in a position to enter into ledgers and
various other accounts. He manipulated the entries by forging and fabricating
certain entries. He fraudulently issued cheques in his favour and illegally
withdrew Rs.17,67,409/- from the bank. The Court held him guilty under
Sections 65, 66 and 72 of the Information and Technology Act, 2000.

Very recently, a threat email was sent to the BSE and NSE on Monday. The
Mumbai police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell are jointly probing the
case. The suspect has been detained in this case.The police said an email
challenging the security agencies to prevent a terror attack was sent by one
Shahab Md with an ID sh.itaiyeb125@yahoo.in to BSE’s administrative email
ID corp.relations@bseindia.com.The IP address of the sender has been traced
to Patna in Bihar. The ISP is Sify. The email ID was created just four minutes
before the email was sent. The sender had, while creating the new ID, given
two mobile numbers in the personal details column. Both the numbers belong
to a photo frame-maker in Patna.

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CYBER TERRORISM LAWS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

U.S.A: The U.S. Patriot Act, 2001 and USA Freedom Act, 2015 describe cyber
terrorism as forms of hacking causing damage to protected computer networks
of citizens, legal entities or governmental authorities including damage to
computer system used by governmental agency to manage defence or to
assure national security.

Singapore: The Computer Misuse Act, 1998 describes cyber terrorism as the
use of information and technology which affects the security, defence or
international relations of Singapore or disrupts any services directly related to
communications infrastructure, financial and banking services, public utilities,
transportation or public key infrastructure.

Pakistan: Section 17 of the Prevention of Electronic Crime Ordinance, 2007

provides whoever, commits the offence of cyber terrorism and causes death of
any person shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life, the
Prevention of Electronic Crime law will be applicable to anyone who commits a
crime detrimental to national security through the use of a computer or any
other electronic device, it lists several definitions of a terrorist act including
stealing or copying or attempting to steal or copy classified information
necessary to manufacture any form of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

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HOW TO COMBAT CYBERTERRORISM?
Cyberterrorism has become a huge menace in the past few years. Since
internet has become more popular, the number of cybercrime and cyber
terrorism incidents have increased by a manifold. The convenience with which
a cybercrime can be committed from the comforts of one’s house or without
even setting foot in the country makes it even more dangerous.
A global effort has to be made if cyber terrorism has to be curbed properly.
More international conventions on cyber terrorism like the Budapest
Convention on Cyber Crime, 2001 need to be held for ensuring mutual
cooperation between nations to stop cyber terrorism.
However, there are a few things that we can do to limit and prevent cyber
terrorism:
 Maintain high alert & vigilance.
 Update OS and applications regularly.
 Enforce strong passwords.
 “Lock down" systems.
 Keep anti-virus software installed and up-to-date.
 Employ intrusion detection systems and firewalls.
 Be cautious about opening email attachments.
 Complete Software Updates
 Create difficult passwords
 Download anti-virus software
 Uninstall unused applications or services

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 CONCLUSION

The menace of cyber terrorism is not peculiar to any particular country as the
it is global in nature. The countries all over the world are facing this problem
and are trying their level best to eliminate this problem. The problem,
however, cannot be effectively curbed unless popular public support and a
vigilant judiciary back it. Also, there is a need for mutual co-operation on the
global level as cyber terrorism transcends all boundaries and it can’t be curbed
without the mutual co-operation among different countries and the global
organisations.

Cyber terrorism is a scary concept for many reasons.It can do possible serious
damages to various aspects of our lives. It is even scarier that cyber terrorism is
so difficult to catch and track and prosecute. The information age has brought
us many good things, but along with those good things came some bad things
too.All we can do as citizens is to protect ourselves by protecting our
information, who we give it to and how much we give it out.

We, however, must understand that the law dealing with cyber terrorism will
never be adequate to meet the precarious intentions of the cyber terrorists.
With the rapid growth in technology, they will always stay a few steps ahead of
us.

For a effective solution, the laws have to take care of the problems originating
at the international level because the internet, through which these terrorist
activities are carried out, recognizes no boundaries. A cyber-terrorist can easily
collapse the economic structure of a country from a place with which a country
may not have reciprocal arrangements, including an “extradition treaty”. The
only safe guard which is available to us is to use the latest technology to
counter these problems. Thus, we understand that a good combination of the
latest security technology and a law dealing with cyber terrorism is the need of
the hour. Currently there are no fool proof ways to protect a system but our
government is trying to do its part, so let’s support them and their efforts and
stop this cyber battle.

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Rastogi, Anirugh, Law of Information Technology and Internet, 1st
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