Cyber Terrorism

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Cyber Terrorism

• Rain Ottis

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Agenda

• What is Cyber Terrorism
• Potential terrorist uses of Internet

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Purpose

• To give the students a better overview of
  (potential) terrorist uses of cyber space

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What is Cyber Terrorism?

• Practical exercise for groups
• Define cyber terrorism

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Terrorism

• Terrorism is the systematic use of terror
  especially as a means of coercion
• No universal definition
• Questions
• Extent of the threat death, destruction, fear
  ...
• Can states be considered terrorist
• Goal political, religious, economic, ecologic
  ...
• Targeting civilians
• Disguised

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Terrorists on the Internet?

• Practical exercise for groups
• What are the potential terrorist uses for
  Internet?

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Propaganda

• Spreading your message on websites, forums etc.
• Using spam and defacement attacks
• Capitalizing on the attention of the mass media

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Command and Control

• Covert communication channel using publicly
  available services
• Chat
• E-mail
• Forums
• Websites
• ...

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Recruiting and fundraising

• Overt
• Web portals, forums...
• Covert
• Cooperation with the criminal underworld
• Blackmailing, extortion, theft etc.

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Training

• Manuals, videos etc. available on-line

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Psychological operations

• Attacks that cause little or no damage in
  physical sense, but are widely felt among the
  population, thus causing fear and uncertainty
• Capitalising on the attention of the mass media

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Cyber attacks againd infrastructure

• No publicly known large impact cyber terrorist
  attacks to date?
• ... but the potential is there
• US experiment to remotely disable a power
  generator
• SCADA systems may be linked to the Internet

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Group exercise
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Questions