"Adl va Ensaf" Comparative Law Researches Quarterly
"Adl va Ensaf" Comparative Law Researches Quarterly

The concept of Terrorism in New Cyber Technology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Sima Hatami 1
Fatollah Rahimi 2

1 Graduate of university of Tehran

2 Faculty board of Azad university

10.22034/aeclr.2024.397685.1119
Abstract
Cyber ​​actions on the Internet is known as information war that has emerged with the information revolution. Today, such type of war with the term cyberterrorism refers to a set of techniques that are intended to prevent access to information and create confusion and disrupt the security of the government or the target group and affect vital, sensitive and important centers.
Considering the high importance of information technology in today's era and the lack of stability of the information base, this has become one of the potentially vulnerable and dangerous points in the world. Protecting this technology from existing threats in order to maintain national security and privacy of citizens in the atmosphere of war and international hostilities, requires prompt attention and action, and at the same time systematic and reasonable in this field.Recently, the attacks that occurred on gas and fuel stations in Iran; In fact, it indicates a kind of warning about the possibility of targeting security centers and vital facilities and causing disruption in the political, production, economic, social and even transportation networks, which can target different networks of the country like dominoes one after the other. disturb This article examines cyber terrorism with a critical and analytical approach in the modern international law system and challenges the actions of countries in this field in the realization of emerging forms of crimes related to cyber terrorism.

Keywords

Cyber terrorism
Information Technology
cyber attack
Internet war

Subjects

Volume 6, Issue 20
Spring 2023
Pages 52-70

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