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Konceptualizace kyberterorismu
The Conceptualization of Cyberterrorism

Author(s): Jakub Drmola
Subject(s): Security and defense, Victimology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Univerzita obrany - Centrum bezpečnostních a vojenskostrategických studií
Keywords: Conceptualization; Cyberterrorism; Electronic Attack; Hacker; Hackerspace Communities; Data Collection; Cyber Criminality; Industrial Espionage

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to define cyberterrorism phenomenon with the use of available documents, reports, and expert texts, and to evaluate its role and occurrence in contemporary world's events. The cyberterrorism is very often discussed nowadays, but there is a total lack of any consensus as far as a precision definition is concerned. The critique of current state is summarized at the end of the final chapter, describing leading causes of present situation, i.e. a situation when the cyberterrorism is discussed, politicised, all repeatedly underline its dangerousness, but in practice no cyber attract has occurred.

  • Issue Year: 22/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 94-102
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech