 Welcome friends and viewers. Do you know that cyberterrorism is becoming more and more prominent on social media today? As the internet becomes more widespread in our daily lives, many individuals and groups can use the anonymity provided by cyberspace to threaten us, our families, our children, our citizens, our communities and even the entire nation. So friends, today I, Hemant Batra, public policy tutor and talker, shall be sharing my thoughts on cyberterrorism. So keep watching this video ahead. These anonymous cyberspace attackers are not scared to attack and harm us because they think they cannot be captured by law as we do not know their exact physical locations. For terrorists, cyber-based attacks have definite advantage over physical attacks. They can be conducted remotely, anonymously and relatively cheaply and they do not require significant investment in weapons or explosives and recruitment of personnel. Ornarily, cyberterrorism and internet vandalism means using and employing the internet to carry out violent, vicious, brutal and sadistic attacks of threat, intimidation, killings or causing bodily or mental injury and harm to the victims to perhaps achieve political or ideological gains. It also now and then implies as an act of internet terrorism whereby terrorist activities including acts of deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks especially of personal computers attached to the internet are attacked using tools such as well, you know, computer viruses, computer worms, phishing and other malicious software. And yes, hardware methods and even programming scripts. Cyberterrorism can be global, national, like domestic, local or political. However, the underlying action in all these situations is a mixed pattern of terrorist act, internet and computer. These three things put together. Under the Indian legal regime, there is a specific substantive provision of the law dealing with cyberterrorism. Section 66F of the Information Technology Act defines what constitutes cyberterrorism and affirms it as a serious criminal offence. It says that whoever with intent to threaten the unity, integrity, security or sovereignty of India or to strike terror in the people or any section of the people using computer resource, contaminating a computer and by such conduct, you know, if that person causes or is likely to cause death or injuries to person or persons or damage to or cause destruction of property or disrupt supplies or services essential to the life of the community or, you know, adversely affect the crucial and critical information pertaining to infrastructure or causes injury to the interests of the sovereignty, integrity of India. The security of state as a whole, you know, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, decency and morality or, you know, causes contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence or to the advantage of any foreign nation group of individuals or, you know, otherwise commits the offence of cyberterrorism. It actually, you know, can be defined as a cyberterrorism, what I just mentioned. Well, whoever commits or conspires to carry out terrorism, that act shall be punishable with the imprisonment which may extend to imprisonment for life. So the definition given under the law is very comprehensive and the punishment is severe imprisonment for life. Dependency on the internet is increasing, expanding day by day across the globe, generating interest in the international cyberterror and giving them a ground to attack the nations in a very widespread and profound manner. Cyberterrorism is likely to increase and we need to counter that effectively and efficiently. Well, that is all for today. Next time I will do another video talk on the topic of your interest. In the meantime, I would request you to subscribe to this YouTube channel known as ITVMentorTalk and, you know, press the bell icon for notifications. See you next time. Thank you.