Cyber Terrorism: A New Form of Terror against the National Interests

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon، it is rather one such phenomenon that has accompanied human kinds and by applying violence against individuals، states and groups through forceful achievement of the political or public goals، has become one of the most serious international threats. This phenomenon due to the close access of new technological information and communication has become one of the strategic troubles which is able to transform the small groups with complicated structures into significant players in the international arena at the present. Considering the growing advancement of technology and unique features of cyber space، cyber terrorism aims at destroying the critical infrastructures of a country، which has brought bout serious challenges to the states. The basic question of this research work is that، with regard to easy access and unique nature of the cyber space، how can we overcome the threats of cyber terrorism against the states’ interests? The hypothesis of this article is based on the fact that with the advancement of technology we are facing new threats that we can never take the national security confined to the national borders of a country as it used to be in the past. Nowadays، the invaders just with a set of computer (pc، laptop، etc.) pose a threat to a state. Such a prominent threat has put all the conventional and prevalent perceptions of the concept of national security under question. This research work is based on explanatory-analytical method collecting data from library.