The concept and content of cyberterrorism.

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The concept and content of cyberterrorism.

Journal Title: Прикарпатський юридичний вісник - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue

Abstract

It was concluded that the notion of cyber terrorism has emerged at the beginning of XXI centuries, before the mass use of the Internet. It was marked that the term “cyberterrorism” is a synthesis of the concepts of “cyber safe space” and “terrorism”. It was offered to understand terrorism as the activities which purpose is to intimidate a certain object, mostly often refers to the political arena, and cyberterrorism – lawful act that is committed with the aim of achieving of the negative consequences, such as obtaining of any material goods or threats to information security. Cyberterrorism takes place in the cyber safe space. It was marked that cyber terrorism is characterized by the use of the computer as a tool of the crime and the existence of the Internet as an international information space, in which is the object of the crime. Malicious attacks by criminal individuals or groups are committed at the following specific items, such as information, programmes, computers, local and global networks. It was argument that the cyberterrorism is a species, and information terrorism – a generic term of the negative phenomenon – terrorism. It was also stressed on the lack of a uniform definition of “cyberterrorism” both in doctrine and the legislation.

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І. В. Діордіца

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EP ID EP453967
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