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Cyber Attacks
A research review on Cyber Attacks has not yet been completed by the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide.
About Cyber Attacks
Definition
Cyber attacks are "efforts to alter, disrupt, or destroy computer systems or networks or the information or programs on them" (Waxman 2011, p. 422).
Strategies This Tool Can Support
(1) Dissuading potential perpetrators from committing mass atrocities
(2) Degrading potential perpetrators’ capacity to commit atrocities