Which other terrorist groups could launch cyberattacks?
We don’t know how many groups have the know-how. The Tamil Tigers have mounted on-line attacks against the government of Sri Lanka. The Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, which released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, had previously built a system for tracking Japanese police vehicles, and investigators discovered that the group possessed classified data regarding these vehicles. Other foreign terrorist organizations also use the Internet for communications and propaganda, but it’s hard to know who has cyberterrorist capabilities until they try something. Cyberattacks often lack the drama of traditional terrorist attacks, so they might not be attractive to some terrorist groups. Could terrorist groups get help from hackers? Yes. Rather than developing their own computer skills, terrorist groups might try to hire or trick unaffiliated hackers into helping. Experts are particularly worried about highly skilled and underpaid computer specialists from the former Soviet Uni
