Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism

party is a terror organization.

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Cyber terrorism definition
In 2010, the Netherlands government changed its terrorism definition to align the 
definition used by its justice system with the operational definition of its intelligence 
services. At the same time the Dutch government tried to align with the terrorism 
definition provided by 
European Council (2002)
and the United Nations. The Dutch 
working definition of terrorism (
NCTb, 2014
) is:
threatening, making preparations for or perpetrating, for ideological reasons, 
acts of serious violence directed at people or other acts intended to cause prop-
erty damage that could spark social disruption, for the purpose of bringing about 
social change, creating a climate of fear among the general public, or influencing 
political decision-making.
However, when comparing the UK’s considered terroristic impact part with else-
where defined national interests, the UK’s “damage to a property” sounds weak. 
The Dutch, for example, consider “disruptive economic damage,” “serious negative 
impacts to the ecological security,” and “a serious change of social and political sta-
bility” as elements to be mitigated national risk.
On the basis of preceding considerations, terrorism probably can be better de-
fined as:
The use, making preparations for, or threat of action designed to cause a social 
order change, to create a climate of fear or intimidation amongst (part of) the 
general public, or to influence political decision-making by the government or an 
international governmental organisation; made for the purposes of advancing a 
political, religious, racial or ideological cause; and it involves or causes:
• violence to, suffering of, serious injuries to, or the death of (a) persons(s),
• serious damage to a property,
• a serious risk to the health and safety of the public,
• a serious economic loss,
• a serious breach of ecological safety,
• a serious breach of the social and political stability and cohesion of a nation.
From that, we can derive a definition of cyber terrorism as:
The use, making preparations for, or threat of action designed to cause a social 
order change, to create a climate of fear or intimidation amongst (part of) the 
general public, or to influence political decision-making by the government or an 
international governmental organisation; made for the purposes of advancing a 
political, religious, racial or ideological cause; by affecting the integrity, confi-
dentiality, and/or availability of information, information systems and networks, 
or by unauthorised actions affecting information and communication technology-
based control of real-world physical processes; and it involves or causes:
• violence to, suffering of, serious injuries to, or the death of (a) persons(s),
• serious damage to a property,
• a serious risk to the health and safety of the public,

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