British authorities are bracing for an increase in cyberterrorism as al Qaeda calls for “cyber jihad” following the death of Osama bin Laden, according to a report released Tuesday.”There will be more cyber terrorism,” said the report, released by the British Home Office to outline the country’s counter-terrorism strategy. “We must increase our understanding of how terrorists use the Internet.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/al-qaeda-cyber-jihad_n_895579.htmlAlso see:Counter-terrorism strategy driven by ‘cyberjihad’ threat
A new generation of scanning technology, watchlists, no-fly lists and databases to track terrorist travel was promised by the home secretary, Theresa May, on Tuesday as she published the government’s new counter-terrorism strategy.She indicated that the Home Office will no longer rely on seeking “difficult to negotiate” general agreements of no torture and no ill-treatment with countries such as Algeria in order to deport foreign terror suspects, but instead will try to strike individual deals in each case.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/12/counter-terrorism-strategy-cyberjihad-threat