Cyber Warfare and International Humanitarian
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Date
2017-06
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Centre for Research on Islamic Management and Business
Abstract
The technological advancement has made States, societies and individual fully
dependent on computers, computer systems and internets and simultaneously made
them vulnerable by broadening the scope of cyber-attacks. The cost effectiveness,
easiness and safetyness of cyber attackers have significantly contributed to increase
cyber attacks worldwide. The wider use of computers in many places including many
dangerous and important installations like nuclear power plant, water dams, electric
power grids, hospitals, oil and gas installations have fallen the people in a havoc
danger in all time of cyber attacks. In this regard some important issues are unsettled
yet namely, identification of the attackers, whether international humanitarian law
applies in cyber attack. This study will not explore the technique of identification of
cyber attackers which is the works of the scientists; it will only focus the most
important controversial unsettled issue of contemporary world whether IHL applies
in the cyber attacks.
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Cyber attack, cyber warfare, international humanitarian law, armed conflict, technological advancement
Citation
Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2017