The Study of the Plight of Cyberterrorism and Its Way Out

Abstract

After “9.11”, terrorist attacks have been increasingly relying on cyberspace, posing an im-minent threat to national security. This article introduces two types of cyberterrorism attack: target oriented and tool oriented. Target oriented attack means terrorists directly attack networking device, while tool oriented is the activity making use of Internet tools. Moreover, in the work, three counter-measures and five futures for cyberterrorism are also discussed. This article suggests that understand-ing cyberterrorism in a board sense, and do not underestimate the serious situation.