Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare: Threats and Responses (Terrorism Library Series) [Paperback]

Yonah Alexander (Author), Michael S. Swetnam (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 1571052259 | ISBN-13: 978-1571052254 | Publication Date: June 1, 2001

Cyber terrorism is an emerging new mode of information warfare underscoring the perpetrators' deliberate exploitation of civilian and military systems' inherent vulnerabilities, thereby affecting national and global security. This volume includes contributions made by academics, policymakers, and professionals at seminars and conferences co-sponsored by the International Center for Terrorism Studies (Potomac Institute for Policy Studies), and the Terrorism Studies Center (The George Washington University), during the past several years. It also includes statements by key government officials and industry experts at different forums in the United States dealing with both threats and responses.

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About the Author

Prof. Yonah Alexander is Senior Fellow and Director, International Center for Terrorism Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, as well as Director, Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies and Co-Director, Inter-University Center for Legal Studies. He has published over 70 books in the field of terrorism and international affairs and is founding editor of Terrorism: An International Journal.

Michael S. Swetnam is President and Chairman of the Board, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Group to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Intelligence. He has published a four-volume set on Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare (with Prof. Alexander). Table of Contents Governments Perspectives Industrial Perspectives Legal Perspectives Academic Perpectives Bio-Cyber Terroism: Case Study Selected Documents

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Transnational Pub (June 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571052259
• ISBN-13: 978-1571052254
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,539,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars prescient speculations, April 10, 2005

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This review is from: Cyber Terrorism and Information Warfare: Threats and Responses (Terrorism Library Series) (Paperback)

The book was officially released in June 2001, just a few months before the terrorist attacks on the US. Which makes the book's relevance even more compelling. Subsequent investigations of the terrorists have shown how they communicated in part using readily available email. Here, they used the very advanced nature of the US against it.

Read now, in the light of 2001's events, some of the book's sections take on a prescient tone. One can expect a future adversary (or an existing one) to take a similar asymmetric strategy. Perhaps such methods might involve more than just using the Internet as a communications channel? Which is a relatively passive usage, compared to speculations of more active measures like sabotage.