Apr. 11, 2011 The Internet has no borders, no universal
legislation, and although highly social and distributed is not
represented by cooperation across the globe. Given those
characteristics how might nations make their plans for counter
terrorism in cyberspace as active online as they are in the
everyday world? A collaboration between researchers in the US
and Iran hoped to address that issue and its findings are
published this month in the International Journal of Internet
Technology and Secured Transactions. Incidence of online crime
has grown considerably in recent years, with terms such as
malware, Trojans, bot-nets and phishing attacks entering the
common vernacular. There has also been a significant increase in
activity that might at best be described as international
commercial sabotage but that some would label more sensationally
as cyber-terrrorism. Much of the illicit activity that leads to
internet outages, malware infections and other virtual
atrocities are being carried out with purely criminal