Cyberterrorism and Information War

Cyber- terrorism is the use of computing resources to coerce or intimidate others. One example of Cyber terrorism could be hacking into a hospital computer system and changing someone’s medical prescription to a lethal dosage as an act of revenge. Computing professionals all over the world need to be aware of possible areas of weakness prone to such terrorism. While Information War (IW) is actions taken to achieve information superiority by affecting adversary information, information based processes, and information systems, while defending ones own information, information based processes and information systems.In the present age of advance information technology-Cyberterrorism and Information Was has gained tremendous significance. With the passage of time everyday new types of cases are coming to light-peculiar in nature and difficult to detect. This book is organized in two parts: one, on Cyberterrorism-consisting of ten chapters; two information War and Modern Warfare-containing four chapters besides an elaborate introduction.