A cybernetic dimension of the contemporary threats

Abstract

Countries’ vulnerability to cybernetic dangers, including cyberterrorism, increases. Recent years examples from Poland and world countires presented in the article below suggest that such tendency will continue to rise, since modern community functioning is inseparably connect with the provision of constant and well-functioning automatic systems, to match the supply of basic needs services such as (data storage and transmission, monitoring and control processes, management support, etc.). An act of violence or cybernetic terror activity may be employed by the enemy countries government and agencies, international concerns, non-government organized crime groups, network associated groups or even individuals. The objectives of such terrorism may be critical infrastructure elements, banking systems, weapon systems, homeland security systems or even individual Internet users. Cyber-attacks can deal massive economical loss reaching hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Predicting the future, cyber-attacks may be commonly practiced by organized crime groups as extortion or become embers of cyberconflict or even cyberwar.