WHY CYBERTERRORISM IS HAPPENING?

     Cyberterrorism used to be anonymous to all of us before. However, nowadays every single incident that happens around us is somehow related to cyber crimes especially cyberterrorism. As we all know cyber terrorism poses a vast number of threats to individuals, organizations and governments.

     From my point of view, cyberterrorism takes place due to several reasons. Personal gain is one of the important factors as to why cyberterrorism takes place.  These people send out viruses to other users just to annoy them or to ruin their daily lives.  Furthermore, they can also disable certain life or death related matters of the affected party.

     Lately, cyberterrorism is being related to religion.  Cyber terrorists are attacking the cyber space by relating names of their god or other religious subjects. By doing so, they are gaining publicity and these terrorists have many followers as they believe that the religion had asked them to do all this catastrophic events in others life. They are least bothered about how many innocent lives are affected by these issues.

     Cyberterrorism is low cost and it only requires the person to be able to handle the computer. It doesn’t require special machinery such as the ones used in the wars. For an example, bombs or machine guns. These cyber terrorists are able to interrupt the infrastructure controls of an organization or government. Eventually, it will cost more damage in regards to the time and money to the impacted parties as cyberterrorism is disastrous.

     At times, these hackers just want to create fear among the cyber space users. Hence they would try to spread rumors about things that never happened. The rumor panicked by a number of people. This is one of the major ethical issues faced by many of us these days. In the long term, psychological intervention is established whereby those terrorists are satisfied with their acts of making other people suffer tremendously emotionally.

     In align to all the factors mentioned above, bringing down the reputation or tarnishing an organization, individual or government is also one of the reasons why cyberterrorism takes place. When there is a major system breakdown due to spread of viruses to the database whereby customers’ bank details can be obtained by the terrorists, customers lose their trust to the organization as a whole. It is not their mistake however due to the accessibility of the terrorists to these personal information, customers may want to hop to another entity which they feel could provide them more assurance.

     These are some of the factors that trigger cyberterrorism. There could be other reasons along with the ones I’ve mentioned but overall these factors seem to have more impact on the current cyberterrorism issues.