Electronic Jihad App Offers Cyberterrorism For The Masses

Electronic Jihad App Offers Cyberterrorism For The Masses

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U.S. businesses would be greatly impacted by any large-scale cyberattacks because most of that infrastructure is run by companies in the private sector.

Although cyberterrorism has been around since the Internet reached the mainstream more than a decade ago, a relatively new Web-based application offers Islamic jihadis a way for even the relatively nontechnical to target and attack Web sites perceived to be anti-Islamic.

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With a simple application all interested can now attack web sites they perceive as anti-Islam. This is a new wave of cyber terrorism since it doesn't use compromised machines to launch an attack, but people do it by using jihad application.

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[edit on 2-7-2007 by sb2012]