Odpowiedzialność państw za podejmowane w cyberprzestrzeni działania zagrażające międzynarodowemu pokojowi i bezpieczeństwu
State responsibility for cyber-attacks constituting a threat to international peace and security

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the international law mechanism allowing to prosecute a state for electronic threats generated from its territory, directed against a foreign sovereign. It discusses the possibility to recognize a cyber-attack as an act of international aggression and shows it difficult at the present state of international debate. It than reaches to the traditional notion of state responsibility for the lack of due diligence as the source of states responsibility for cyber-attacks. Such due diligence should be conducted through sufficient criminal law regulation, properly executed in order to prevent electronic attacks. In order for a sufficient legal system of protection against cyberattacks to be created, an international debate, resulting in international guidelines, should be initiated. The results of such a debate would than allow for the uniformity of national criminal law regulations. As a starting point for such a debate a rough analysis of the Polish penal code rules, especially its Chapter XXXIII, has been presented. The Authors point to the need of an international debate on the system of protection against cyberattacks on key state electronic infrastructure, emphasizing however the already existent international obligation for states to take responsibility for attacks conducted form their territory.

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