london alqaida is increasingly using online technology including the popular social networking sites to launch a cyberjihad against the west uk government has warned citing terror attacks like the 2611 mumbai strikesthe uks updated counterterrorism strategy released on tuesday suggests that terrorists use of social media to disseminate information and radicalise people is commonplaceit warns that the number of attacks on it systems would likely increase and that extremists were increasingly sophisticated in their use of social networking and video sharing sitessince the death of osama bin laden alqaida has explicitly called not only for acts of lone or individual terrorism but also for cyberjihad the document saidthere have been a number of attempts by terrorist and extremist groups to invade facebook twitter will be used to repost media or forum articles enabling extremist content to be shared quickly widely and amongst people who would not normally search for extremist contentadvances in technology such as software to encrypt mobile calls and texts file sharing networks and cloud computing meant terrorists were able to store and share material online easily while also disguising their actions