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This incident happens in China. It is an example of a cyber terrorism.
What happened was that a lady, Yan Qi, who is a member of the China legislative advisory body said that she wanted to propose an international ban on private cyber cafes that exist. Following her announcement, hackers all over china got angered that they launch an attack on her, not physical attack but cyber attack.
The hackers went online and paralysed the website of her restaurant chain. Yan, whose business is based in the southwest city of Chongqing, blamed internet cafes for social ill ragings from school truancy and petty theft to video game addiction. Yan was caught quoted "Many serious problems are linked to Internet cafes and businesspeople usually ignore their social responsibilities". She also said that desperate diseases must have drastic cures.
Yan was planning to propose the ban at the annual gathering of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which began Wednesday, suggesting that state-run cybercafes should be set up. Following her plan, the hackers repeatedly went online hacking into the website of her restaurant chain, Taoranju, changing the home page and removing links.
What we see here is an example of a cyber terrorism. People may see cyber threat as not so dangerous but here, someone's life and career is destroying or may have been destroyed. So internet can be dangerous when people use it the wrong way. Anything can be dangerous when the wrong people with the wrong thinking use it the wrong way.
source taken from ( http://news.malaysia.msn.com/weird-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3923461) accessed on 5th march 2010
This incident happens in China. It is an example of a cyber terrorism.
What happened was that a lady, Yan Qi, who is a member of the China legislative advisory body said that she wanted to propose an international ban on private cyber cafes that exist. Following her announcement, hackers all over china got angered that they launch an attack on her, not physical attack but cyber attack.
The hackers went online and paralysed the website of her restaurant chain. Yan, whose business is based in the southwest city of Chongqing, blamed internet cafes for social ill ragings from school truancy and petty theft to video game addiction. Yan was caught quoted "Many serious problems are linked to Internet cafes and businesspeople usually ignore their social responsibilities". She also said that desperate diseases must have drastic cures.
Yan was planning to propose the ban at the annual gathering of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which began Wednesday, suggesting that state-run cybercafes should be set up. Following her plan, the hackers repeatedly went online hacking into the website of her restaurant chain, Taoranju, changing the home page and removing links.
What we see here is an example of a cyber terrorism. People may see cyber threat as not so dangerous but here, someone's life and career is destroying or may have been destroyed. So internet can be dangerous when people use it the wrong way. Anything can be dangerous when the wrong people with the wrong thinking use it the wrong way.
source taken from ( http://news.malaysia.msn.com/weird-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3923461) accessed on 5th march 2010
