Question

Define and describe the concepts of cybercrime, information warfare, and cyberterrorism (provide specific examples of each). In your discussion, describe the role of China in recent cyber attacks on the United States. Include at least one current event to support your discussion with full citation in APA format.

Discussion question responses should range from 300-400 words. Participation posts must reflect critical thought and reflect substantive contribution to the class discussion (generally a minimum of 150 words). Rather, simply posting that you agree or disagree with another students post or restating their post will not constitute a substantive response. Additionally, you will be graded on grammar, so proofread your submissions prior to posting. It may be helpful to type your responses in a word document before cutting and pasting them into your submission. Students are also expected to incorporate a minimum of 2 academic references with appropriate in text citations in APA format for any information obtained from an outside source beyond the course textbook. Full credit for participation posts will also include reference to outside sources in support of your position.

Answer 1

Cyber world:

                      Today in this modern era, everyone are dependant on internet for the day to day life progress. There was billions of users already surfing the cyber at various level, like expert , intermediate, beginer and having the new comers too as of now, even the new born kid has the knowledge to operate a smart phone.

As long the wide reach of internet also has it own risk, becuase of cyber attacks that are prevailed, no one is found to be private and nothing is secreat. Our info are vulnerable to data stealers. Let us see various type of cyber attacks that we are facing in this internet age.

Cyber Crime:

                         It is a type of criminal activities that are carried out by means of computers or the internet. It can use the computer networks or even other devices to advance the other ends connected. There was lot of malpractices happening the around the internet web such as information theft, hacking, crashing servers and so on.

But there is not a overall combined definition for cyber crime, but it has be majorly classified in two different forms.

Advanced Cybercrime:

                                It was nothing but sophisticated attack against computer hardware and software.

Cyber enabled crime :

                              Lot of the traditional crimes got turned into advanced one with raise of internet such as, crime against women, financial crimes, even terrorism.

Example : Email viruses,

                          It was one of the old and important technique of sending emails to random people with virus attached in, which will make the cyber attackers to get the personal details of the victims, with those information attackers can even obtain the victims accounts.

Information warfare(IW).

                                  It is a concept of involving use and management of information and communication technology in pursuit of competative advantage over and opponent. Information collection is found to be a part of information warfare. It is obviously collecting the secreative infomation, what ever the possible options may be.

Cyber Terrorism:

                       It means politically motivated use of computers and information technology to cause sever disruption or widespread fear. It is a act of terrorism using internet as a tool in terrorist activities, including acts of deliberate, large scale disruption of computer networks, more precisely PC attached to internet, using internet hacking tool like virus.

Example : Foreign goverments can use hackers to spy on other country military and intelligence in order to calculate where the troops are located and other tactical advantages over the war.

Role of china in warfare:

                                  In recent decades it happend lot of time, the US goverment has been stolen by many sugical cyber attack, of that china play a major role, which is holding the second biggest military budget for their country. There has been lot of rounds of talks happen between the two countries towards the issue, but the conspiracy still says that china is continuing its cyber attack on US goverment.

References :

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-continuing-cyber-attacks-on-u-s-networks/

http://www.theglobalist.com/china-united-states-cyber-crime-politics/