Cyber terrorism

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CYBER TERRORISM

JENI VARGHESE

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CYBER TERRORISM

• The term ‘cyber terrorism’ was coined in 1996 by Barry Collin.

• Cyber terrorism - “convergence of cyberspace and terrorism”.



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CYBER TERRORISM

• US national infrastructure protection centre (2001) has defined cyber terrorism as:

“A criminal act perpetrated by the use of computers and telecommunications capabilities, resulting in violence, destruction and/or disruption of services, where the intended purpose is to create fear by causing confusion and uncertainty within a given population, with the goal of influencing a government or population to conform to a particular political, social or ideological agenda.”

• Use of computers, internet and information gateways to support traditional terrorism.



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CYBER TERRORISM

• Targets may include power plants, military installations, the banking industry, air traffic control centers, water systems, and other major centers affecting the lives and well-being of many people and companies.

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FEATURES OF CYBER TERRORISM

• Difficulty Identifying Attackers: It remains difficult to determine the identity of the initiators of most cyber attacks.

• Lack of Boundaries: Attacks can originate from anywhere in the world and from multiple locations simultaneously.

• Speed of Development: The time between the discovery of a new vulnerability and the emergence of a new tool or technique that exploits the vulnerability is getting shorter.

• Low Cost of Tools: The technology employed in attacks is simple to use, inexpensive, and widely available.

• Automated Methods: The methods of attack have become automated and more sophisticated, resulting in greater damage from a single attack.



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FORMS OF CYBER TERRORISM

Some of the forms of cyber terrorism are:

(a) Privacy violation.

(b) Secret information appropriation and data theft.

(c) Demolition of e-governance base.

(d) Distributed Denial of Services (DoS) attack.

(e) Network damage and disruptions.

(f) Use of cyber communications for terrorism.



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METHODS OF ATTACK

Three methods of attack: involves different types of weapons(a) Physical Attack:•against computer facilities and/or transmission lines.

•accomplished by use of conventional weapons to destroy or seriously injure computers and their terminals.

(b) Electronic Attack:•use of power of electromagnetic energy or electromagnetic pulse to overload computer circuitry.

(c) Cyber Attack or Computer Network Attack:•use of a malicious code to take advantage of software's weakness; or

•an attacker uses stolen information to enter restricted computer systems.



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TOOLS FOR CYBER TERRORISM

Some of the tools used by cyber terrorists to disseminate their agenda are:-

(a)Virus: A computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another.

(b)Worm: a standalone computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.

(c) Trojan Horse: A non-self-replicating type of malware which facilitates unauthorized access to the users computer system.



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(d) Logic Bomb: A piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.

(e)Trap Doors: A method of gaining access to some part of a system other than by the normal procedure.

(f)Denial of Service: The attacker sends almost innumerable requests for information/e-mail that cause a computer systems to crash.



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(g) Use of Cryptography and Steganography: to aid terrorism

Cryptography: Information is transformed into unreadable format (cipher text). Only those who possess a secret key can decipher (or decrypt) the message into plain text.

Steganography: Writing hidden messages in a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message.



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INCIDENCE OF CYBER TERRORISM

Al Qaeda Terrorist used the Internet to plan the September11,

2001 operations upon new York City and Washington D.C.

They used a special internet chat software for communication.

A nuclear power plant in Iran was attacked by the Stuxnet worm. The worm installed itself in the plant’s PLC (Programming Logic Controller) computer-controlled system and caused a change in the rotational speed of machinery. The increased speed without the usual automated shut-down controls caused the nuclear plant fusion center to spin uncontrollably and explode.

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ACTS OF CYBER TERRORISM IN INDIA

• In the case of 26/11 Mumbai attacks, terrorists used cyber communication to aide the terrorists to carry on with the massacre.

• Cyber communication was also used in July 2011 Jhaveri Bazaar Mumbai bomb blasts and 2010 Varanasi blasts.



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INDIA : FEW INITIATIVES

The Government of India has put in place some mechanisms to counter the threat of cyber terrorism.

• Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In): a functional organization of the department of Information Technology with the objective of securing Indian cyber space.

• National Cyber Security Assurance Framework is established by the CERT-In for protection of Critical Information.

• The Information Technology Act, 2000 and IT (Amendment) Act 2008.



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THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000 AND IT ACT AMENDMENT 2008.

• Amendments under the Information Technology Act, 2000 has defined the term “Cyber terrorism” U/Sec. 66F (1).

• Punishment for Cyber terrorismWhoever commits or conspires to commit cyber terrorism shall be

punishable with imprisonment which may extend to imprisonment for life. (Section 66F (2))

• Section 69 gives power to the state to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information through any computer source.

• Section 70 A and 70 B- Agency for critical information and Indian Computer Emergency response team (CERT-In) for incident response.



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