'Electronic Jihad' App Offers Cyberterrorism For The Masses

More on cyberterrorism. This will be another type of attack that we can expect more of. Now there's a simple to use software kit for Jihadi anywhere to try a cyberattack.
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FROM INFORMATIONWEEK.COM:

[ISN] 'Electronic Jihad' App Offers Cyberterrorism For The Masses
From: InfoSec News
Date: Mon Jul 02 2007 - 23:12:41 PDT

By Larry Greenemeier
InformationWeek
July 2, 2007

Although cyberterrorism has been around since the Internet reached the
mainstream more than a decade ago, a relatively new Web-based
application offers Islamic jihadis a way for even the relatively
nontechnical to target and attack Web sites perceived to be
anti-Islamic.

The "Electronic Jihad Program" is part of the long-term vision jihadi
Web site Al-jinan.org has to use the Internet as a weapon, something
that affects any organization that relies on the Web.

Electronic Jihad allows users to target specific IP addresses for attack
in order to take any servers running at those IP addresses offline. The
application even includes a Windows-like interface that lets users
choose from a list of target Web sites provided via the Al-jinan site,
select an attack speed (weak, medium, or strong), and the click on the
"attack" button.

The concept of "electronic jihad" is a relatively recent strain of
cyberterrorism interested in very specific network and economic
disruption, Dorothy Denning, a professor in the Department of Defense
Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, told InformationWeek. Its
audience consists of malicious Islamic hackers aligned with Osama bin
Laden, al-Qaida, and the extremist Islamic movement. "The attacks from
jihadists are interested in taking Web sites down and disrupting
economies that they don't like," she added. "It's something to be taken
seriously."
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