CYBER TERRORISM AS NEW WAY OF WARFARE: SECONDARY CASE ANALYSIS OF “STUXNET” AND THEORETICAL APPROACH TO CYBER TERRORISM Cover Image

CYBER TERORIZAM KAO NOVI OBLIK RATOVANJA: SEKUNDARNA ANALIZA SLUČAJA „STUXNET“ I TEORETSKI OKVIRI CYBER TERORIZMA
CYBER TERRORISM AS NEW WAY OF WARFARE: SECONDARY CASE ANALYSIS OF “STUXNET” AND THEORETICAL APPROACH TO CYBER TERRORISM

Author(s): Emir Muhić
Subject(s): Security and defense, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fakultet za kriminalistiku, kriminologiju i sigurnosne studije Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: cyber attacks; cyber terrorism; war; terrorist organizations; intimidation;

Summary/Abstract: Reason for writing and research problem (s): New age of rapid evolution of information systems and technology and neocolonial aspirations and struggle for resources leads to the evolution of terroirsm that takes new form, non-violent but equally deadly. Attacks and diversions in government information systems or nuclear research centers (eg Iran) represent a new form of warfare that replaces conventional weapons and moves from a natural to a digital environment. New fronts are pushing the boundaries of social ethics and opening the door to new malicious forms of human behavior. Aims of the paper (scientific and/or social): The paper provides insights into new ways of guerrilla and paramilitary struggle against established state and national systems, the war against terrorism was not won, it changed only form but the essence remained same, and as even more represents a significant threat society. The results can serve as guidelines and insights into what will happen in the near future, which will become more technologicaly advanced, but in same time more vulnerable. Methodology/Design: The research is descriptive and will present a secondary analysis of events that are classified as a work of intelligence agencys and subjects in the domain of electronic warfare and the establishment of political pressures on other regional and global actors. Research/Paper limitation: Terrorism itself represents a dynamic category of all elements that move on the political spectrum from struggle for freedom to a justified preventive attack. The clear and accurate classification of each individual act has favoritizations and judgments of actors that can enter into the domain of political correctness and national favoritisation of certain subjects. The paper presents a hypothetical framework of acts that can happen but are not conditioned or directly related to the current political climate. Results/Findings: The results presented in the paper shows future events that can arise as a result of the anarchy of cyber space and the mutual intelligence wars of the state and paramilitary actors in the struggle for domination of global politics. Multipolarity and uneven distribution of power of state or parastatal actors, poses a significant risk of disturbing the fragile peace and relative security of the countries of the first world, which, as colonizers, enslaved the rest of the world while not anticipating retribution.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2019
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 227-243
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
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