What is Cyber Terrorism and Internet Vandalism? #cyberterrorism  #itvmentortalk
Channel: MentorTalk
Date: 2020-05-24

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Cyberterrorism is becoming more and more prominent on social media today. As the Internet becomes more widespread in our daily lives, many individuals and groups can use the anonymity provided by cyberspace to threaten us, our families, our children, our citizens, our communities and even the entire nation. 
Hemant Batra, Hemant K Batra, Mentor Talk, #HemantBatra, #MentorTalk


These anonymous cyberspace attackers are not scared to attack and harm us because they think they cannot be captured by law as we do not know their exact physical locations. For terrorists, cyber-based attacks have definite advantages over physical attacks. They can be conducted remotely, anonymously, and relatively cheaply, and they do not require significant investment in weapons, explosive and personnel.

Ordinarily, Cyberterrorism and internet vandalism means using and employing the Internet to carry out violent, vicious, brutal, cruel and sadistic acts of threat, intimidation, killings, or causing bodily or mental injury and harm to the victims, to achieve political or ideological gains. It also now and then implies as an act of Internet terrorism whereby terrorist activities, including acts of deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet are attacked using tools such as computer viruses, computer worms, phishing, and other malicious software and hardware methods and programming scripts.

Cyber terrorism can be global, national, local or political, however, the underlying action in all these situations is a mixed pattern of the terrorist act, internet and computer.

Under the Indian legal regime, there is a specific substantive provision of the law dealing with cyber terrorism. Section 66F of the Information Technology Act defines what constitutes cyber terrorism and affirms it as a serious criminal offence, it says that Whoever with intent to threaten the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or to strike terror in the people or any section of the people using computer resource; contaminating a computer; and by such conduct causes or is likely to cause death or injuries to persons or damage to or destruction of property or disrupts supplies or services essential to the life of the community or adversely affect the critical information infrastructure or causes injury to the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or about contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, group of individuals or otherwise, commits the offence of cyber terrorism.

Whoever commits or conspires to commit cyber terrorism shall be punishable under the law with imprisonment which may extend to imprisonment for life.