Whither Cyber Terror?  Ten years have passed since G-Force
Pakistan, a group of Pakistani hackers with a history of
defacing websites, announced the formation of the Al-Qaeda
Alliance on one of their hacked sites. Declaring that they stood
by Al-Qaeda, the defacement said they would be attacking major
US and British websites and giving confidential data to Al-Qaeda
authorities. Any speculation that the group might conduct
attacks of a terrorist nature, however, was quickly put to rest.
Apparently worried about their image, G-Force wrote on a
subsequent defaced site that they were “not a group of cyber
terrorists” and that “all we ask for is PEACE for everyone.”
They asked the media to “not leave a bad image of us on
readers.”  Although G-Force never became a major threat, others
emerged to take up the umbrella of what is sometimes called
“electronic jihad” or “cyber jihad.” Typically, these
individuals and groups attack websites that they view as
contrary to the values of Islam, either defacing the sites or u