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Experts Divided Over Cyber-terrorist Threat
News His words echoed those of the president of the Institute for Defense Analysis, retired general Larry D Welch, who told ZDNet.co.uk at the Cyber Warfare Conference 2008 in London last week that the threat to military and critical national...
[April 9, 2008, 11:19]
Hackers Face Life Sentence
News A committee report accompanying the legislation predicts: "A terrorist or criminal cyber attack could further harm our economy and critical infrastructure. The CSEA had been written before the 11 September terrorist attacks last year, but the...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Cyber Terrorism 'merely A Theory'
News If a directed cyber attack on, say, a power system that.resulted in the blackout of an entire nation or a large region and deaths because of that.that would constitute cyber terrorism if they claimed they did this as a terrorist act," he said.
[November 11, 2003, 8:10]
Nato: Cyber-terrorism Danger Equal To Missile Attack
News Anil believes the threat will continue to grow as terrorist groups become aware of the potential to cause maximum damage at minimal cost. Nato's cyber-defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national security...
[March 10, 2008, 8:06]
Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT Minister
News Just as it has banned Australian-hosted pornographic content on the Internet, would the Government consider extending the ban to religious extremist groups' Web sites or known terrorist Web sites? It might be just one social isolate with terrorist...
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
Cybersecurity Of Freight Information Systems: A Scoping Study
White Papers The potential vulnerability of freight transportation information systems to terrorist attacks is a serious concern for homeland security. This report lays the groundwork for a study of the cyber security of the information systems on which freight...
[January 12, 2005, 2:00]
Real & Virtual War: Ciip & The Public/Private Collaboration
White Papers September 11 and more recent terrorist activities significantly increased awareness of the interdependencies of critical infrastructures, and it heightened governments' sense of urgency regarding the need for increased private sector and public...
[August 22, 2005, 6:00]
Comments Of The United States Government On The European Commission Communication On Combating Computer Crime
White Papers As the Internet's potential to provide unparalleled benefits to society continues to expand, however, one must recognize that global networks also serve as a powerful new medium for those who wish to commit criminal and terrorist acts.
[August 22, 2005, 6:00]
Clinton Tackling Cyber Terrorism
News Clinton said "terrorist and outlaw states are extending the world's fields of battle from physical space to cyberspace. The president's Cyber Corps plan will be included in his fiscal 2000 budget proposal next month.
[January 25, 1999, 9:33]
Networks Boost Security Against Attacks
News But despite the federal Terrorist Threat Advisory, which calls for IT professionals across the country to "implement appropriate security measures -- both physical and cyber," experts say corporate America is a long way from ready, or safe.
[September 17, 2001, 10:39]
NASA Hacker Is No Neo
Leader How else to explain the British Airports Authority (BAA) decision to invest £23m in 'Shield', a programme to combat the threat of cyber-terrorism, when nobody has ever seen a cyber-terrorist? The news this week that the 'World's biggest hacker of...
[June 10, 2005, 14:30]
The Reverse Salient
News Instead of vilifying the hacker as a cyber terrorist, we could instead look at them as mere agents of change. Take me back to the Cyber terrorism special If an offensive line is advancing against an enemy line, the test of its strength is the...
[April 6, 2000, 14:23]
FBI To Prioritise Cybercrime Fight
News The reorganisation comes as news that a glitch in the FBI's email wiretap system could have hindered investigations into terrorist threats. Protecting the United States against "cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes" is one of the FBI's...
[May 30, 2002, 14:18]
How CIOs Can Help Fight Cyberterror
News However, a successful cyberterrorist attack that combines both physical and cyber elements on a regional scale is certainly within the capabilities of terrorist organisations today. The job of a terrorist is to spread terror.
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]
Brown Pumps Funds Into Espionage Tech
News Gordon Brown presented the government's National Security Strategy to the House of Commons on Wednesday, outlining plans designed to improve the UK's response to terrorist and criminal threats, among others.
[March 19, 2008, 17:37]
Hackers Split Over Vigilante Strikes
News Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
Bush Beefs Up Cybercrime Spending
News About $35m of that is earmarked for the Terrorist Threat Integration Centre -- a somewhat amorphous organisation designed to share information with the CIA that has alarmed civil libertarians. The Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber...
[February 3, 2004, 9:10]
White House Preps Cybersecurity Plan
News In October 2001, in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks, President Bush appointed Clarke to coordinate the administration's Internet security efforts. Allowing completely anonymous communications on a wide-scale basis, with no...
[September 17, 2002, 15:19]
MP Calls For Cybersecurity Tsar
News The MP also claimed that the UK's CNI was threatened by terrorist organisations. I think that the terrorist threat is over-hyped, and the criminal threat is under-hyped," Schneier told ZDNet UK. Pritchard also claimed that cyber attacks also had a...
[November 28, 2005, 13:30]
US Considers Jailing Hackers For Life
News A committee report accompanying the legislation predicts: "A terrorist or criminal cyberattack could further harm our economy and critical infrastructure. During closed-door negotiations before the debate began, the House Republican leadership...
[November 14, 2002, 15:16]
