Donald L. Buresh, Does Digital Terrorism Really Exist?, Journal of Advanced Forensic Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 18-29, ISSN 2692-5915, https://doi.org/10.14302/issn.2692-5915.jafs-20-3405.
(https://oapgroup.org/jafs/article/1367)
Abstract: This paper attempts to answer the question of whether digital terrorism, also known as cyberterrorism, exists. The paper defines terrorism both in the conventional and digital sense. It then gives a short history of conventional terrorism, dating back two thousand years and ending with the terrorist activities in several third-world nations. The essay then discusses digital terrorism, highlighting the Estonian, Georgian, and Ukrainian cyber-attacks. The work concludes that digital terrorism does indeed exist, but that the future is uncertain in the sense that future cyber-attacks will probably not resemble past attacks as the technology advances.
Keywords: Conventional terrorism; Cyber terrorism; Digital terrorism; Estonian cyber-attack; Georgian cyber-attack; Ukrainian cyber-attack