Use of Internet and Associated Technologies in “Cyber-Warfare” and Issues Affecting its Investigation

DOI

10.2991/icetis-13.2013.241How to use a DOI?

Keywords

internet; cyber-warfare; jurisdiction; investigation issues

Abstract

With the development of the internet and associated technologies like the World Wide Web, an information age was ushered in bringing a lot of benefits like ease of communication, speedy access to information, convenient business transactions etc. But these same technologies also brought along high tech criminal activities like internet fraud, cyberstalking etc. They also brought along another dimension in the art of war. This paper presents a brief history of the internet, its resources and how they are been applied in cyber-warfare, what constitute criminal and non-criminal act with the help of a case study. It also went further in comparing cyber-warfare to hacking and looks into jurisdictional issues relating to forensic analysis of associated attacks.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Benson Otafu
AU  - Oluleke Bamodu
AU  - Liwei Tian
AU  - Ulagba Otafu
PY  - 2013/06
DA  - 2013/06
TI  - Use of Internet and Associated Technologies in “Cyber-Warfare” and Issues Affecting its Investigation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Education Technology and Information System (ICETIS 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1056
EP  - 1062
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icetis-13.2013.241
DO  - 10.2991/icetis-13.2013.241
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