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Impact on national security strategy 
 
Since internet and social media are evolving quickly and facing a multisided interaction with 
geo-strategic and socio-cultural elements, it is important to constantly monitor how they develop, 
analyze how they work, and measure their potentialities. This process aims at making the states not 
be caught by surprise in case of a potential offensive use of this tools by adversaries and changing 
such innovative tools into resources of primary importance, to be ready for all the bodies involved 
in the protection of the national security [3]. Using these media can cause several negative effects 
for national security and unfavorable consequences for a state’s strategic interests. More likely and 
potential threats to national security are [4]: 
- 
international terrorist groups (Al-Qaeda, PKK, ISIS, jihad-inspired groups, separatist 
organizations); 
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transnational criminal organizations; 
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multinational corporations; 
- 
cracker groups (mostly in foreign states); 
- 
companies (with foreign capital stock); 
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religious sects (spread transnationally); 
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hacker groups; 
- 
NGO and IO’s 
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allied foreign states or states with a political-military and/or an economic-financial 
partnership. 
The 2007 cyber-attacks in Estonia are a series of cyber-attacks that swamped websites of 
Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and 
broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze 

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Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn [5]. 
Following, on 20 July 2008, weeks before the Russia-Georgia conflict, the “zombie” computers 
were already on the attack against Georgia. On August 5, 2008 the websites for OSInform News 
Agency and OSRadio were hacked. On August 5, the same year, Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline was 
subject to a terrorist attack near Refahiye in Turkey, responsibility for which was originally taken 
by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) but there is circumstantial evidence that it was instead a 
sophisticated computer attack on line's control and safety systems that led to increased pressure and 
explosion. 
Another exaple is the hacker attacs which had happen on April 2013 as a group which is 
called themselves the Syrian Electronic Army hacked an Associated Press Tweeter account and 
passed a tweet message that the White House was shot and President Obama was injured. At the 
end of this message New York Stock Exchange Dow Jones has lost 1% value and 143 points in 
only 2 minutes, which is the forecast cost about 136 billion dollars. All this factors once again 
showed us that how the internet and social media can impact on national security of any nation. 
Lastly, social media are connection and communication tools, and just because of their being 
“tools”, they can represent either a threat or an opportunity for national security according to the 
way they are used, by who are used and for what reason [6].