Cyber terrorism means attacking targets by computer. It posses disastrous consequences for our computer society. The word cyber terrorism is two different words in which cyber has different meaning and terrorism had different meaning. Cyber terrorism can be said as cyber attacks done by terrorists.
Terrorists use the internet for doing cyber attacks. For example if we take the defence academy there is a lot of details about weapons in the system. If any cyber terrorism had done in that server then all the details are crashed and the unauthorized person takes all the details.
In the military operation there are secret operations in which the wars took place. If the details are catched by the unauthorized person then there will be a loss of human life.
Person who makes cyber terrorism is called as cyber terrorist. A cyber terrorist is a programmer who breaks in to computer and stoles the information. It is a type of violence against civilians in order to attain goals.
Cyber terrorism is a real threat in which terrorists attack the internet main part that is the DNS servers. It is the unlawful violence action against the properties and important information of government, civilian people.
A simple example of cyber attack is hacking the hospital computer system and changing the prescription of a person in order to take a revenge act.