An analysis of the status of computer network attacks in international law.

1. The world in which we live and fight; 2. Computer network attacks as a use of force in international law; 3. Armed attack and response in the digital age; 4. The applicability of the laws of armed conflict to computer network attacks; 5. Participants in conflict: combatant status, direct participation and computer network attack; 6. Targeting and precautions in attack; 7. Measures of special protection; 8. Means and methods of warfare.

Heather Harrison Dinniss is a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Law Centre of the Swedish National Defence College. She has previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research focuses on the impact of modern warfare on international humanitarian law; in particular, on advanced and autonomous weapons systems and the status and use of computer network attacks in the law of armed conflict.