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Computer Attack and Cyber Terrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress

Overview This report presents a working definition for the term "cyber terrorism", plus background information describing how current technology and management processes may leave computers exposed to cyber attack, and a discussion of possible effects of a cyber attack. Appendices to this report explain technologies underlying computer viruses, worms, and spy-ware, how these malicious programs enable cyber crime and cyber espionage, and how tactics currently used by computer hackers might also be employed by terrorists while planning a possible cyber terror attack.

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Publisher	U.S. Department of State	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2003	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cyber Security

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