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Intel Worker Charged With Terrorism Offences
News The affidavit, prepared by an Oregon state trooper, attempts to tie Maher "Mike" Mofeid Hawash, 38, to a group of six Portland, Oregon, residents arrested on terrorism charges last year. The Justice Department has charged Intel engineer Mike Hawash...
[April 29, 2003, 15:13]
Interstate '82 1.0
Downloads It's 1982 and auto terrorism is at an all-time high. Wage fully charged vehicular combat as you strive to uncover and destroy top-secret forces before they drive you--and the entire country--to the brink.
[December 15, 1999, 3:02]
Police Ask For More Internet Powers
News In a press statement, Ken Jones, chairman of the ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, said: "[The] evolving nature of the current threat from international terrorism demands that those charged with countering the threat have the tools they...
[July 26, 2005, 8:55]
Limiting Encryption May Open Doors To Criminals
News A new call for limits on encryption technology is finding weak political support in the United States, despite a looming clandestine war against terrorism that is likely to hinge on the effectiveness of police and military intelligence.
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
Openness Is Our Best Defence
Leader We are now becoming used to the idea that phone records, hard disks and Internet logs are major components in the fight against terrorism. The Internet videos distributed by the supporters of terrorism are deftly made with high production values...
[July 25, 2005, 15:20]
Anarchy In The USA
News But when I found out the terrorism enhancement (from the USA Patriot Act) applied to my case, I changed my mind. My amendment gives law enforcement another tool in the war against terrorism, to combat the flow of information that is used to teach...
[August 14, 2003, 14:35]
Throwing Money At Technology
News Rather than this type of "target-based" approach, as it is known, many security and anti-terrorism experts advocate a strategy that can be used in a variety of emergency situations. Technology projects must respect constitutional safeguards of...
[October 19, 2004, 16:15]
NASA Hacker To Speak At Security Show
News His defence argued that he should not be extradited as he could be tried under America's tough anti-terrorism laws. He is charged with gaining unauthorised access to 97 US government computers, including machines belonging to NASA and the US...
[April 13, 2006, 18:05]
Lawyers: Hackers Sentenced Too Harshly
News While admitting that the small set of cases might not truly represent reality, the paper said that the DOJ statistics and other evidence does support the conclusion that such cases should be treated as white-collar fraud, not as some sort of...
[February 21, 2003, 10:24]
Phishing Line Used To Sell ID Cards
News With much criticism of the plans anticipated, the government has been stressing the use of the scheme to prevent identity theft rather than using the terrorism argument, which was deployed during the last attempt to introduce the bill.
[May 27, 2005, 15:15]
'Wardriver' First To Be Convicted Under US Anti-spam Law
News Some experts have even offered dire warnings that open Wi-Fi hot spots could abet terrorism. The driver was charged with possession, distribution and creation of child pornography, as well as theft of telecommunications -- a first in Canada...
[October 1, 2004, 9:35]
Police Chief Criticises ID Cards Scheme
News The idea the card can be used to fight terrorism is completely fatuous. If someone is charged [with a crime], we can keep it, but we can't keep it without a charge. He added that holding suspected criminals' fingerprints indefinitely on linked...
[May 15, 2007, 18:01]
US Budgets $1bn For Homeland Security IT
News A major focus for HSarpa (pronounced h-sarpa) will be technology related to detecting and dealing with bio-terrorism threats, Alexander said. Alexander is the deputy director of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), a...
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
Homeland Security Bill Becomes US Law
News The department will gather and focus all our efforts to face the challenge of cyberterrorism, and the even worse danger of nuclear, chemical and biological terrorism," Bush said during a White House ceremony on Monday afternoon.
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
FBI To Prioritise Cybercrime Fight
News The cybercrime focus is part of a major reorganisation that will also add new agents and put more resources toward preventing terrorism. The division is being charged with supervising investigations of federal violations where the Internet...
[May 30, 2002, 14:18]
EU-US Passenger Data Row Heats Up
News The US remains intractable on the subject of using the data for "ends other than the fight against terrorism" - for example, investigations into any crime or misdemeanour that merits a punishment over four years in prison.
[December 3, 2003, 15:45]
NASA Hacker To Hear Fate Next Month
News His defence has argued that he should not be extradited as he could be tried under America's tough anti-terrorism laws. McKinnon is charged with illegally accessing 97 US Government computers and causing $700,000 worth of damage over a 12-month...
[April 12, 2006, 18:05]
Police Smash £39m Italian Piracy Ring
News To back up their demands, the media groups claim that counterfeiting and piracy of copyrighted works "feeds a growing black economy in which criminal networks use piracy to fund other activities such as drug dealing, arms trading, money laundering...
[November 6, 2002, 17:04]
Let Studios Hack P2P Networks, Says US Politician
News Critics charged that the RIAA was trying to hijack the terrorism bill, and the language was dropped. Last October, RIAA lobbyists said they were concerned that anti-terrorism legislation being rushed through Congress would block them from using...
[June 26, 2002, 12:00]
'Stealing' Wi-Fi
Forum Then you could be contravening the Computer Misuse Act, or be classed as a cyberterrorist under the Terrorism Act 2000. If they are charged fees due to going over their limit because of actions you have taken then I guess you could be held...
[November 7, 2006, 12:40]
