LOCALIZING CYBER TERRORISM IN A GLOBALIZING INFORMATION SPACE

Cyber terrorism, as the most dangerous form of cybercrime, today poses the greatest threat not only to the national security of specific States, but also to the entire world community. And compared to traditional terrorism, in carrying out terrorist threats, uses the latest advances in science and technology. The extent and nature of the social danger of cyber terrorism is influenced by the fact that the target of the crime can be both the sphere of daily socio-economic relations and the information security of the most important state structures. The globalization of the information space, based on the spread of the world 's Internet, has put humanity in the face of serious and previously unknown threats that require the unification of all intellectual forces to develop common methods of localizing these crimes. At the same time, in the context of the globalization of the information space, terrorists have gained noble ground for expanding the mechanisms of interaction between themselves and creating an extensive network. In this regard, the localization of destructive effects for terrorist purposes and the protection of the most important objects are the main tasks of the State.

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