Terrorism is the most popular headline in Media in the present situation. From past few decades’ world’s leading countries have been attacked by terrorist groups. Cyber terrorism is an act of terrorism used by many terrorist groups in order to steal highly classified from opponent countries or disrupt countries operations like nuclear generation, gas supplies etc. Cyber Terrorism is also known to be a way leading countries could show their dominance on other enemy countries. Cyber terrorism became a global threat right from its initial stages. One of the first attacks of cyber terrorism was in the early 1980s during the phase of the cold war, where CIA implemented a backdoor virus which is commonly referred as “Logic Bomb” in the Siberian pipelines.
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Till then USA government did not have any idea that terrorist can destroy their economy drastically by simply hijacking the plane. After 9/11 attack, many government agencies like FBI, CIA have been involved with the ISAC and other internet organizations in order to save their data and transfer them to a safer location. Since then, USA removed all the information available on their government websites which could help the terrorists to plan attack similar to 9/11. They protected their database from public access and recovered the primary data. While the US from recovering from the financial losses from the 9/11 attack exactly after a week it was attacked by a virus referred as “Nimda” which is considered to be the widest spread virus worm among the internet. As soon as it was released into the internet, it created havoc in the internet community especially in the USA by knocking out the databases of a major section of companies, corrupted data. This lead to the shutdown of many financials units and caused several billions in damage. The US was not successfully able to link the attack to Al Qaeda who planned 9/11. But they were rumors that it was intentionally released that the warm was released after a week of 9/11 to increase the percentages of damages caused to the US during the recovery stage. Since after the continuous …show more content…
One direction of the cyber terrorism is to use the latest technology and methods to reveal the bad things done by the government and reveal the real facts to the general public. These groups of cyber-terrorist are commonly referred as hacktivist. The other direction is to use latest technology and methods to plan attacks on different countries to cause damage to countries economy and human life. Even though both are considered to be illegal by law, people have always supported the group of hacktivist who actually the government dark secret to the public. Recently in the media sector, Panama papers are creating sensational new. Panama papers are confidential documents of many leaders, politicians, celebrities who are actually involved in tax evasion and causing huge losses to the countries. These set of 11.5 million documents are released by unknown anonyms hacktivist group and handed them over to an International consortium of a investigative journalist to analyze them (Panama Papers). The Journalist have analyzed the papers and stated that all the documents are considered to be legit. This leak contains documents dated older than 4 decades and show how the tax evasion is taking part in the countries. This is the most popular leak till date regarding tax evasion to contain all the legitimate documents and proofs to investigate they are involved. This Might be an example how hacktivist uses the
Till then USA government did not have any idea that terrorist can destroy their economy drastically by simply hijacking the plane. After 9/11 attack, many government agencies like FBI, CIA have been involved with the ISAC and other internet organizations in order to save their data and transfer them to a safer location. Since then, USA removed all the information available on their government websites which could help the terrorists to plan attack similar to 9/11. They protected their database from public access and recovered the primary data. While the US from recovering from the financial losses from the 9/11 attack exactly after a week it was attacked by a virus referred as “Nimda” which is considered to be the widest spread virus worm among the internet. As soon as it was released into the internet, it created havoc in the internet community especially in the USA by knocking out the databases of a major section of companies, corrupted data. This lead to the shutdown of many financials units and caused several billions in damage. The US was not successfully able to link the attack to Al Qaeda who planned 9/11. But they were rumors that it was intentionally released that the warm was released after a week of 9/11 to increase the percentages of damages caused to the US during the recovery stage. Since after the continuous …show more content…
One direction of the cyber terrorism is to use the latest technology and methods to reveal the bad things done by the government and reveal the real facts to the general public. These groups of cyber-terrorist are commonly referred as hacktivist. The other direction is to use latest technology and methods to plan attacks on different countries to cause damage to countries economy and human life. Even though both are considered to be illegal by law, people have always supported the group of hacktivist who actually the government dark secret to the public. Recently in the media sector, Panama papers are creating sensational new. Panama papers are confidential documents of many leaders, politicians, celebrities who are actually involved in tax evasion and causing huge losses to the countries. These set of 11.5 million documents are released by unknown anonyms hacktivist group and handed them over to an International consortium of a investigative journalist to analyze them (Panama Papers). The Journalist have analyzed the papers and stated that all the documents are considered to be legit. This leak contains documents dated older than 4 decades and show how the tax evasion is taking part in the countries. This is the most popular leak till date regarding tax evasion to contain all the legitimate documents and proofs to investigate they are involved. This Might be an example how hacktivist uses the