ABSTRACT
Additionally, a lexicographer with the Oxford English Dictionary recently conducted a thorough review of the history of the term “cyber.” This study found that the term underwent significant diversification during the mid to late 1990s. This diversification correlates with the explosion of the World Wide Web and the earliest foundations of the Internet. Consequently, it was during this period that words like cyberbully, cybercommunity, cybergeek, cyberstalker, cybersex, and cyberwar came into existence [3]. Similarly, the term cybersecurity was first coined in 1989 [3]. However, the concept of cyberterrorism did not come into common usage or understanding until the establishment of worldwide terrorism after the September 11 attacks. It is this last component that will be expanded upon throughout this chapter.
