Cyber and Social Terrorism

Cyber and Social terrorism is a new different type of Technic that makes use of information systems or digital technology, especially the Internet, the internet is now the basic need of each and every people so it is an instrument of target. The Internet becomes more a way of life with us, it is becoming easier for its users to become targets of the cyber terrorists. All we know that cyber crime has been one of the common practices made by the computer experts.

Cyber terrorism is the act of internet terrorism in terrorist activities, including acts of Deliberate , large-scale disruption of computer networks, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet, by the means of tools such as computer viruses. They also hacked social ID , bank account and website also send fake messages for creating fear to others They creat cyber crime, cyber war or ordinary terrorism.

There are some who say that cyber terrorism does not exist and is really a matter of hacking or information warfare They disagree with labelling it terrorism because of the unlikelihood of the creation of fear, significant physical harm, or death in a population using electronic means, considering current attack and protective technologies.

Many believe that cyber terrorism is an extreme threat to countries' economies, and fear an attack could potentially lead to another Great Depression. Several leaders agree that cyber terrorism has the highest percentage of threat over other possible attacks on INDIA territory. They also target civilians, civilian interests and civilian installations. As previously stated cyber terrorists attack persons or property and cause enough harm to generate fear.

We, as the Information Technology people of tomorrow need to study and understand the weaknesses of existing systems, and figure out ways of ensuring the world's safety from cyber and social terrorists. A number of issues here are ethical, in the sense that computing technology is now available to the whole world, but if this gift is used wrongly, the good things could be disastrous. It is important that we understand and mitigate cyber terrorism for the benefit of society, try to curtail its growth, so that we can heal the present, and live the future.

The world is a very large place, but it is getting smaller, thanks to the advent of computers and Information Technology. However, the progress that we've made in these fields also has a dark side, in that a new terrorist tactic, commonly called Cyber and social terrorism has developed. Cyber and social terrorism is any act of terrorism that uses information systems or digital technology (computers or computer networks) as either an instrument or a target. Cyber and social terrorism can either be "international", "domestic" or "political", according to the nature of the act, but it is always an act involving a combination of the terrorist and the computer.

Cyber and social terrorism involves two primary elements: cyberspace and terrorism, and can be defined as the use of information technology by terrorist groups with intentions of personal gain and widespread damage. Many time some computer exports do whit the help of internet and personal computer .They do this work anywhere and anytime because now the day the technology is very first and they do over internet (help of computer and computer network)

In whatever forms it is, directly or indirectly, always affects the society. In today’s world, there is immense increase in the use of Internet in every field of the society and due to this increase in usage of Internet, a number of new crimes have evolved Such crimes where use of computers coupled with the use of internet is involved and broadly termed as cyber and social terrorism.

Cyber & Social terrorism are basically national and non-national group. They attack against information, computer system, computer program, data and official website .They do there crime and terrorism with the help of internet, computer and computer network. They mostly good programmers and computer hackers .They perform illegal activates such as online database hacking, bank account hacking, spreading computer various , online bullying and create Unauthorised electronic fund transfer. Mostly Social Terrorism is committed through the help of Internet. Some Social Terrorism is carried out using Mobile Phones via SMS and online Social Network and also helps of Social Application. 

The growth of Information Technology has led to the development of this dangerous web of terror. They weak the database and website in few seconds by apply their high technology. Banks are the most likely places to receive threats. As the internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of human endeavour , individuals or groups can use the anonymity afforded by cyberspace to threaten citizens, specific groups (i.e. with membership based on ethnicity or belief), communities and entire countries, without the inherent threat of capture, injury, or death to the attacker that being physically present would bring . The effect harms socially, ideologically, relationally, politically.

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    Cyber and Social Terrorism

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