PhD Candidate of Public International Law University of Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Studying the legal and complicated dimensions of cyber attacks, as new phenomena, within the IHL rules and principles is not only necessary but also inevitable. This survey is attempting to clarify the technical aspects of cyber attacks and also seek to deal with and analyze its legal aspects as well. The survey, finally, has reached to this approach that existing rules and principles of International Humanitarian Law cannot completely cover and govern upon cyber attacks due to its different substance and formation doss in the cyber space.
