International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation In addition, the like attacks do not endanger the attackers' lives as is the case with traditional attack methods(suicide bomber in this case). What is more important, this form of terrorism provides to a certain level some anonymity which is rarely found in traditional methods of terrorism making it very difcult for security authorities to detect and detain them. Further, cyberterrorism will most likely have a more direct effect on a large number of people than traditional methods of terrorism, thus creating prevalent effects and increasing alertness of certain causes(via greater media coverage). While a suicide bomber may abolish a building or a bridge killing tens or hundred people, a cyberterrorism attack against nation's critical infrastructure such as power grid, water or transportation systems would not only cripple country's economy but potentially kill and harm thousands or even millions of people. 106 Besides, an attack of this nature would also instill panic and fear within a population causing social instability and that is exactly what terrorists aim to accomplish. But there are other dangers as well. Cyber crimes One of the risks includes attacking the data In terms of data breach, according to security contents such as identity theft usually executed ofcials responsible for countering these by cyber criminals or simply taking the data for crimes, there are at least three cases(two someone's own use. The second is usually a against well-known highly protable companies province of highly-skilled criminals and nation­and one against a government department) 74 states. However, it is an increasing threat. Altering datasets is also a realistic possibility currently under investigation where hackers were able to penetrate their systems and obtain and of real concern for those who worry about cyber risks. 107 A highly-skilled hacker can a large amount of company data. Other cybercrime cases involve payment transactions penetrate into a nation's critical infrastructure among local businesses and international rms networks and cause signicant damages to their involving third-party processors. system or it can enter government or military computers and steal condential data These third parties serve as a bridge(middle compromising of which may lead to large scope men) between banks and traders. Because conicts among the states. these systems do not have the same sophisticated levels of security as the banks do, The frequency and complexity of attacks against they automatically become attractive targets for critical infrastructures worldwide seems to be online thieves. Once hackers identify a weak growing, as is their potential to cause signicant spot or an open port in these systems, they damage to their system. However, this might be immediately strike by breaking the encryption of a more important matter for the developed data that travels from the trader to the payment countries. Because Kosovo is still in the early process. A successful decryption of this data stages of development, threats of this nature are not alarming yet mainly because neither the means access to a large amount of people's account information. 108 Kosovo businesses have government nor private businesses use highly fallen victims to these crimes numerous times sophisticated systems to operate-a compromise according to the same source. of which would cause wide-scale effects. 106 Ibid. 107 Miller, R.(2012). Cyber risk: Critical infrastructure. Retrieved from: http://www.umuc.edu 108 Silver-Greenberg, J.& Schwartz, N.(2012). MasterCard and Visa Investigate data breach. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/business/mastercard-and-visa-look-into-possible-attack.html