As the world increasingly goes online, the dangers posed by Internet terrorism are beginning to escalate. Dr Matt Warren, a lecturer in Information Systems at Deakin University, told platform cyber terrorists are now targeting countries through information warfare.
Information warfare relates to attacks upon a country's national infrastructure.
It's really the concept that if you attack computer systems, the infrastructure of a country, by bringing down those computer systems, you are causing massive economic damage to the country you are trying to attack. We haven't seen full-scale information warfare take place. We've seen a forerunner of it in the Balkans. There was a situation where Serbian authorities looked as if they'd organised Serbian hackers and they were trying to hack into sites around the globe, or trying to hack into NATO sites to put forward their message, deface systems and destroy data. So we have now seen the first steps towards it.