الإرهاب الإلكتروني

Abstract EN

In the recent years, human societies have known a rapid developments and events, such as, using computers, Internets, social media and others.

Consequently, this has paved the way for terrorist actions to take place later in all countries.

Thus, many researchers have taken charge of studying the Internet and terrorism relation, which has come to existence and worried many countries and organizations that are in responsible of fighting terrorism after, September 2001, incident.

This is so, because terrorism is no longer concerned with tangible and traditional fields only, but it has prevailed to electronic spaces as well.

The latter has been a starting point to what is known as the “Electronic Terrorism”, which has become a helping factor to tangible and traditional terrorism by either providing information about the targeted place or as an intermediary to implement the touristic actions.

Furthermore, it has become an incitement factor to religion hatred and growing war ideas.

By and large, the terroristic organizations have started to strive in order to benefit from the Internet and invest in it in favor of searching for information and getting finance, donation and equipping the followers.

In addition to this, realizing the correlation between communities and exchanging information, ideas and suggestions about the manner by which they can point and penetrate the target area and how to make bombs.

In the current study, we will try to define the electronic terrorism and its types, besides, spotting the similarities and differences between the electronic terrorism and the traditional one.

Last but least, shedding light to the role, which countries, communities and individuals must undertake so as to confront and prevent this phenomenon.