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Al-Qaeda internet plot reports are 'scare-mongering'
Blog According to a senior government security advisor, reports that there was an Al-Qaeda plot to take down the UK's internet access by sabotaging Telehouse Europe are 'scare-mongering'. Reports stated that a plot to sabotage the colocation company had...
[March 12, 2007, 17:17]
Al Qaeda
Talkback We expect MI6 to issue a statement to the press to the effect that it was intercepted by school children recruited by al Qaeda. As usual, they (the 'intelligence' service) were unaware that the incident would take place until it actually happened.
[November 6, 2007, 20:44]
Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has Cern links
Blog French authorities have arrested a man connected with Cern over suspected links to al-Qaeda. According to a report by the BBC, the arrested man is believed by French police to have "been in contact over the internet with people linked to al-Qaeda...
[October 9, 2009, 17:34]
Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has Cern links
Blog Comment It makes you think though all the same.
[October 9, 2009, 23:10]
BitDefender sees Al-Qaeda link in new Atak worm
News A second variant of the Atak worm, which goes to sleep to avoid detection by antivirus software, has been linked to an Al-Qaeda sympathiser who once threatened to release a powerful worm if the US attacked Iraq.
[July 16, 2004, 12:30]
Glaser: Harmony is the way forward
Talkback Since Real & Glaser are fast becoming the side-talking Al Qaeda of technology, maybe they shouldjust merge with SCO and complete the pact-with-the-devil deal. Like Al Qaeda, they're just intersted in destroying for the sake of destroying
[August 19, 2004, 1:20]
Schneier on security
Talkback This was a softball interview.a wet, sloppy kiss for a guy who knows nothing about the history of al-Qaeda or their efforts to adopt modern technologies. Nor does he understand the economic warfare aspects of modern international terrorism...
[November 28, 2005, 20:07]
9/11 Commission Report
Downloads The 9/11 Commission was created to investigate facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including those relating to:Intelligence agenciesLaw enforcement agenciesDiplomacyImmigration issues and border...
[October 7, 2004, 8:00]
How CIOs can help fight cyberterror
News In December 2002, I interviewed Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, a London-based radical Islamic cleric who has by his own admission recruited suicide bombers and considers his al-Muhajirun organisation the political arm of al-Qaeda.
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]
Tom Siebel: Paid to be paranoid
News We knew the day his roommate (Marwan) Al-Shehhi got a $100,000 wire transfer from an Al Qaeda operative. If we look at what we knew going into 11 September about the backgrounds of these people -- and for what it's worth, none of these people were...
[May 22, 2002, 13:12]
Electronic Jihad? Maybe not...
Blog Rumours have been a-circulating that al-Qaeda - whatever that is - is planning a "cyber jihad" attack on the West using, yep, Electronic Jihad Version 2.0 (the first one must have been too buggy). Techworld is quoting several rather sceptical...
[November 1, 2007, 10:27]
US agrees ban on offshore casino access
News Michael Oxley, chairman of the Financial Services committee, said restricting offshore gambling was necessary to thwart Al Qaeda and other terrorist cells. The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday evening to slap broad restrictions on...
[June 11, 2003, 10:32]
Can you ever be anonymous on the Web?
Talkback If the article is indeed true then most intelligence/security services will have been able to trace al-qaeda news postings on the web or use of the web.
[February 9, 2006, 13:21]
Microsoft warns governments of Linux lawsuit threat
Talkback Personally I think it's highly likely that the CIA, Al-Qaeda or some other agenecy is quite likely and capable of having members in the open source community, quietly making contiributions, but building in their own little backdoors to be...
[November 19, 2004, 14:11]
Microsoft: Firewalls are failing to keep out hackers
Talkback Al-qaeda? Obliteration of IT? Nothing like a bit of scaremongering hyperbole is there? So firewalls aren't the be-all and end-all of security. Well done, MS, welcome to the world the rest of us have been in for years.
[October 5, 2004, 13:55]
UK wants firms to retain communications data
Talkback The whole aim is about fighting terrorism and I would think that al-Qaeda doesnt often operate out of Barclays Bank on Grimsby High Street (you never know. Im pretty sure it is actually communication service providers who will be forced into...
[March 18, 2005, 11:17]
NASA hacker is no Neo
Leader Gary McKinnon, 39, may even be in league with al-Qaeda and anyone else you can think of. The news this week that the 'World's biggest hacker of military networks' may be extradited to the US where he faces up to 70 years in prison is a great story...
[June 10, 2005, 14:30]
MP calls for cybersecurity Tsar
News It is interesting that the imprisoned al-Qaeda members have admitted that their organisation has been attempting to — and no doubt is still attempting to — develop cyberthreats to strike western governments," said Pritchard.
[November 28, 2005, 13:30]
Labour MP takes gov't to task over ID scheme
News Somehow, I do not see the al-Qaeda sleeper cells all rushing down to Boots with their £30 to make sure that they have their own ID cards. The government has defended itself against fresh calls to drop its troubled ID cards scheme, this time from...
[July 7, 2009, 17:01]
