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The war on terrorism has not been won, the author argues. Even though al-Qaeda's leadership has been largely destroyed and its organization disrupted, terrorist attacks take 12,000 lives annually worldwide, and jihadist terrorist ideology continues to spread. How ? Largely by going online and adopting a new method of organization. Terrorist structures, traditionally consisting of loose net cells, divisions, and subgroups, are ideally suited for flourishing on the Internet through websites, e-mail, chat rooms, e-groups, forums, virtual message boards, YouTube, Google Earth, and other outlets. Terrorist websites, including social media platforms, now number close to 10,000. This book addresses three major questions : why and how terrorism went online; what recent trends can be discerned - such as engaging children and women, promoting lone wolf attacks, and using social media; and what future threats can be expected, along with how they can be reduced or countered. To answer these questions, the book analyzes content from more than 9,800 terrorist websites, and the author describes their background and history, and surveys their content in terms of kind and intensity, the groups and prominent individuals involved, and effects. He highlights cyberterrorism against financial, governmental, and engineering infrastructure; efforts to monitor, manipulate, and disrupt terrorists' online efforts; and threats to civil liberties posed by ill-directed efforts to suppress terrorists' online activities as future, worrisome trends.

CYBERTERRORISM

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Cyberterrorism.

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This book investigates the intersection of terrorism, digital technologies and cyberspace. Currently, the evolving academic field of cyber-terrorism is largely dominated by single perspective, technological, political, or sociological, texts. In contrast, this book utilises a multi-disciplinary framework to provide a broader introduction to debates and developments that have largely been conducted in isolation to date. Drawing together key academics from a range of disciplinary fields, including Computer Science, Engineering, Social Psychology, International Relations, Law and Politics, the volume focuses on three broad themes : 1) how - and why - do terrorists engage with the Internet, digital technologies and cyberspace ?; 2) what threat do these various activities pose, and to whom ?; 3) how might these activities be prevented, deterred or responded to ? Exploring these themes, the book engages with a range of contemporary case studies and different forms of terrorism : from lone-actor terrorists, protest activities associated with 'hacktivist' groups and state-based terrorism. Through the book's engagement with questions of law, politics, technology and beyond, the volume offers a holistic approach which provides both a unique and valuable contribution to this subject matter.

CYBERTERRORISM --- Polemology

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Cyberterrorism --- Prevention.

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Cyberterrorism --- Prevention