Information terrorism as a threat to the global security system of the 21st century

El terrorismo informativo como amenaza para el sistema de seguridad global del siglo XXI

• Yuliia Kobets Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9492-6119
• Mykola Pogrebytskyi National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine , Kyiv Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0779-6577
• Olena Berezovska-Chmil Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3395-9141
• Svitlana Kharchenko National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9336-1259
• Andrey Pravdiuk Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5248-8111

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4075.18

Keywords: terrorism, global security system, information technologies, information terrorism, political activity

Abstract

The purpose of the research is information terrorism as a threat to the global security system of the 21st century. The problem of combating information terrorism requires the analysis of the structure of terrorism itself as a phenomenon that has come a long way of evolution from lone suicide bombers, to huge terrorist organizations that commit destructive acts and cause the death of a large number of people, also using the dissemination of information to intimidate a significant number of people. The methodological basis of the research is presented as comparative-legal and systematic analysis, formal-legal method, method of interpretation, hermeneutic method, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis. It is concluded that, one of the main threats to information security is presented by computer terrorism as a form of destructive influence aimed at manipulating or intimidating the population or causing harm to the society, the state or individuals with the use of information technologies and with the purpose of forcing the authorities, an international organization, a natural or legal person (group of persons) to commit a certain action (or refrain from committing it).

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