Cyber Terrorism and AI: The Kosovo War and AI in Cybersecurity

This report examines the rise of cyber terrorism, particularly focusing on the events during the Kosovo War in 1999. The assignment highlights how the war was characterized by cyber attacks, fueled by social media and religious extremism, targeting NATO and US websites. It delves into the impact of these attacks, emphasizing the need for improved information security frameworks in both government and private sectors. The report underscores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity, particularly through anomaly detection and biometric systems. It also references various sources to support the analysis. The Kosovo War's cyber attacks led to increased research in cyberwar and the importance of AI in counter attacks.

Cyber terrorism has been on the rise since the dawn of information technology has captured
every social ecnomic and political spheres. This write up focus on the cyberterrosirm that
happened during the Kosovo war in 1999. This war was characterised by massive cyber
terrorism attacks as it was majorly fueled by social media network of terrorists, religiou zealots.
Within no time, other Islamic extremist had joined the war. During the war, their was serious
internet attacks where independent hackers targeted mainly the NATO and the US websites [1].
This war was majorly fueled by social media theory based on how well coordinated the attacks
were. The war which involved the US military operatives who target financial institution in
Kosovo during the war in a bid to protect their domestic interest gave the war much attractions.
The war increased US cyberwar research with the outcomes of the war very clear that with
great motivation and knowledge, a group of religiou zealots can group together and launch
cordinated attacks against information assets of their enemies making such crimes reach the
levels of cyber terrorism [2].
The various attacks was well planned and executed in well coordinated and timed manner.
Currently, there is no evidence to support whether Israel had a had in the counter attacks
witnessed in the Kosovo information assets which were hacked including their financial
networks. The effects of this Kosovo war led to the evolution of information security where the
need for improved information security frameworks increases not only in Government but also in
the private sector [3].
Such attacks could have been voided by the use of strong artificial intelligent systems that can
detect anomalies in the traffic level within the cyber space of a given country. Government
website and other private sector organization should implement SSL and HTTPS protocols in
their websites to reduce chances of successful access into their systems.
Artificial intelligence has a great role to play in cyber security with the advent of image
recognition and biometric system usage which takes advantage of the unique physical
characteristics of the human object in the cyber security triage [4]

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