Editorial

In many modern business environments, even the short-term, temporary interruption of Internet / e-mail connectivity can have a significantly disruptive effect, forcing people to revert to other forms of communication that are now viewed as less convenient.  Imagine, then, the effect if the denial of service was over the longer term and also affected the IT infrastructure in general.

Many governments are now coming to this realisation. Since the end of the Cold War and the increased development of global networks new threats and vulnerabilities have developed. Many governments are concerned about the fact that their national information infrastructure (NII) is completely dependant upon computerised networks, whether military or commercial. This means that an enemy, many thousands of miles away, can remotely attack and damage a country’s NII via Information Warfare. Who will carry out these attacks?

The development by nations such as theUSandChinaof teams of information warfare experts has highlighted that cyber-warriors have become mainstream. Attacks from organised criminals, political agitators, and cyber terrorists have increased in number and the trend shows no sign of slowing. The setting up of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) illustrates how serious many nations think the problem is.

This edition has a number of papers that focus upon a particular group of individuals called cyber terrorists who have the ability to attack countries’ NIIs. In addition to this special section, other high quality papers have been included to expand the brief of this edition. Another new feature is that of the ‘Opinion Paper’. Each issue we hope to include an article expressing an opinion on some issue of interest. It is hoped that these will stimulate some debate. Please write to us with your opinions. If you feel like contributing an opinion paper, I encourage you to do so. We also encourage letters of interest to the readership. These will be published if they are of sufficient merit.

Matthew Warren

William Hutchinson

February, 2003

Table of Contents

Paper 1:Cyber Terrorism:  An Examination of the Critical Issues 

M. Henych, S. Holmes, C. Mesloh

Paper 2:Combating Cyber Terrorism: Improving  Analysis and Accountability

M.W. David,  K. Sakurai

Paper 3: The Law and Cyber Terrorism

M. Warren, W. Hutchinson

Paper 4: Cyberterrorism: The Story So Far 

M. Conway

About the Authors

Jari Arkko is a Senior Communications Research Engineer at Ericsson Research Nomadiclab.  He has a Lic. Tech. Degree from of Technology. Jari’s interests include secure mobility, secure IPv6 control protocols, AAA, authentication protocols, IP Security, and tradeoffs between security and cost. He is active in the IETF, and has co-authored various RFCs and Internet Drafts, including the DIAMETER AAA and Mobile IPv6 base protocols.  

Maura Conway is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her thesis research is in the area of terrorism and the Internet, and is facilitated by a grant from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.  

Michael W. Davidhas a BA, and a BS, Industrial Engineering, from Lehigh University Pa. He also has an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. He studied Japanese at the Defense Language Institute and the Foreign Service Institute and is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program. Mr. David is currently Vice President, International Business Development Cubic Corporation, Hqs., Ca. Cubic’s industrial products are related to automatic fare collection systems for public transit systems. Military products include air and ground combat training systems, electronic warfare, communication surveillance, secure ID and access control systems.

Seymour Goodmanis Professor of International Affairs and Computing at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as Co-Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. Prof. Goodman studies international developments in the information technologies and related public policy issues. Prior Georgia Tech, Prof. Goodman was the director of the Consortium for Research in Information Security and Policy (CRISP), jointly with the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the School Engineering Stanford University

Pamela Hassebroekis an engineer, educator, and IT specialist who focuses her research on Internet communication, and strategies for making computer-communications technology more secure. She is presently a PhD candidate in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy.  

Curtis “Curt” M. Hellenbrand, Jr.is a Lieutenant Colonel (Promotable) in the U.S. Army reserves assigned to the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology as a staff officer. His military specialties are finance, automation, and acquisition. He received his MBA from the University of Southern California in accounting-information systems, a Masters of Science in computer information systems from Georgia State Universit, and a Masters in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. He is an adjunct instructor for Michigan University. His areas of teaching and research include: system development methods, organization of the information technology function, business process reengineering, information systems security, the organizational impacts of information technology, and management accounting. He has previously taught for Mercer University State University, and University

Stephen T. Holmes is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the Universityof Central Florida. Prior to this position, he was a social science analyst with the National Institute of Justice in Washington. He has authored over 10 books and more than 18 articles dealing with policing, drug testing, probation and parole issues, and violent crime.

Bill Hutchinsonis Associate Professor in charge of the Information and Computer Security programmes at Edith University Perth,Western Australia. He has 22 years experience in information systems in government, the oil and finance industries, and academia in Australia and the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Institute for Professional Intelligence Officers, and specialises in information warfare.

Andy Jones is an experienced Military Intelligence Analyst and Information Technology Security specialist., with considerable experience in analysis of Intelligence material in Strategic, Tactical and Counter-Insurgency operations and a wide range of Information systems security and management experience. He was awarded the MBE for his work during his service in Northern Ireland and has a B.Sc. in Maths and Technology and a M.Sc. in Information Security and Computer Crime. On completion of service with the UK Army’s Intelligence Corps he went on to work as a research manager and researcher and analyst in the area of Information Warfare and computer crime. In Sept 2002 he took up a post at the University of Glamorgan where he is now a Principal Lecturer on Network Security and Computer Crime.

Davis King is a research scientist and software engineer in Atlanta Georgia. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an A.B. from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests include information security, computer graphics, and foreign policy. He has won an Intel Fellowship for his research on 3D compression.