Cyber Terrorism

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Cyber Terrorism
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Not your fathers type war
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Cyber-Terrorism

• target's computers and information technology,
  particularly via the Internet, to cause physical,
  real-world harm or severe disruption of
  infrastructures.
• Also called infowar, netwar, cyberharassment,
  virtual warfare, digital terrorism, cybertactics,
  computer warfare, cyberattack, and
  cyber-break-ins

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Why Cyber-Terrorism?

• For political or military motives
• Monetary gains would be cyber-crime
• For hate, revenge, jealousy, meanness
• To create fear and instability if not actual
  physical damage to property.
• a survey of 725 cities conducted in 2003 by the
  National League of Cities found that
  cyber-terrorism ranked alongside biological and
  chemical weapons at the top of a list of city
  officials' fears.
• Cheap, annoumous, remote, the variety of targets
  available, can affect a much larger audience.
• one person in Iraq could bring down the power
  grid of a large portion of the US causing similar
  havoc of many troops, bombs, tanks guns

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• An electronic invasion could control a company
  and its resources without first destroying those
  resources with conventional war tactics.
• To Steal Money
• To finance their efforts
• To Discrupt business and personal lives
• To support conventional war
• Knock out communicatons, supply chain,support
  services

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How have/are/will they do it.

• DoS Denial of Service
• 911, fire, medical, fanancial
• Control resources
• Dam water levels, electricity,
• Disseminate false information
• Who made the attacks, where, how bad,

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What resources are targeted

• Power Stations
• 911
• Transportation Rail, Airlines, subways
• Communications- TV, Radio, networks, police, fire
  stations
• Economy- Banks, Stock Market
• Military-Early detection, communications,
  retaliation communications
• Human lives- Hospitals, Water, electricity

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Who are they?

• China, Russia, Korea, Israel, India, Grease and
  probably US.
• China was said to have military schools just for
  teaching cyber-terrorism methods.
• Al Qaeda could be a potential candidate
• Iraq-was supposed to have in December 2001 the
  existence of an "Iraq Net." consisting of more
  than one hundred websites set up across the world
  by Iraq since the mid-nineties to launch
  denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against U.S.
  companies
• New Breed of cyber-terrorists

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What have we done to prepare?

• After 9/11 the attacks, the federal government
  requested 4.5 billion for infrastructure
  security, and the FBI now boasts more than one
  thousand "cyber investigators."
• 93 Million in 2007 allocated to Homeland
  Security to defend against Cyber-terrorist
  attacks
• US Senate ratifies cybercrime treaty on August 3,
  2006

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Future Preparations

• Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says Billions
  alocated in 2009 for Government Network Security
• 90 of requested funding for CNCI (Comprehensive
  Natinal CyberSecurity Initiative for 2009
  approved. The largest single request
• Future costs from present from present 5.1
  Billion to 6.3 Billion

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What can YOU do to prepare

• as new UNCA CSCI graduates?

Ill study on it tonight