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University Bans Controversial Links
News The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organisation to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act. All you'd have to do is declare someone a terrorist organisation to...
[September 26, 2002, 11:56]
E-Terrorism: An Online War?
News Kim Valois, security service director at IT integrator CSC says that while e-terrorism includes in the first instance any attack on critical information systems infrastructure, it can also include the use of an information system to benefit or...
[November 29, 2002, 9:44]
Disaster Recovery: Hard Lessons From September 11
News TowerGroup's estimates are based on replacement costs of $52,000 each for the 16,000 trading desks (including turrets and multiple workstations outfitted with multiple flat-screen displays) and $5,000 each for the 34,000 general PC workstations...
[May 19, 2002, 21:51]
UPDATE: Suspected Terrorist Training Site Shut Down
News It is unclear who instigated the closure of the Web site, but according to reports, one of the Sakina trainers is currently being held on terrorist charges in Britain. But, he added, "If there is a terrorist-related Web site, a nationally-based ISP...
[October 5, 2001, 10:28]
Cyberterrorism: Security Versus Liberty
News After all, no one predicted that flight school students would bring down the World Trade Center towers, and few would advocate withholding information that could prevent another terrorist attack. Federal agents concerned about scuba-related...
[August 27, 2002, 13:35]
Dealing With The Worst-case Scenario
News Major floods, fires, hurricanes and man-made disasters such as terrorist attacks fall into this category. However, it is entirely possible that such a disaster could hit your organisation, as was shown in the US during September with
[November 28, 2005, 10:50]
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. It is interesting that the imprisoned al-Qaeda...
[November 28, 2005, 13:30]
Throwing Money At Technology
News In a June report, the non-profit US National Taxpayers Union estimated that more than half of new homeland security funding since 2001 -- $164bn -- is being spent on programmes unrelated to defence or response to terrorist attacks.
[October 19, 2004, 16:15]
Email Answer To Anthrax Risk
News Although investigators originally believed that the American Media letter was an isolated incident, they have since begun to speculate whether the letters are part of a larger bioterrorism campaign, possibly linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda...
[October 17, 2001, 8:53]
Cyber Terrorism 'merely A Theory'
News Even though there were examples of attacks that has physical consequences -- such as the case of Vitek Boden, who was sentenced to two years in prison for releasing up to 1 million litres of sewage into the river and coastal waters of...
[November 11, 2003, 8:10]
Businesses Unprepared For IT Disasters
News Forty-six percent claimed preparing for disaster or disruption had always been that important, while 18 percent said it had become more critical since the terrorist attacks of 11 September, 2001. Companies that fail to get business continuity in...
[May 17, 2005, 16:20]
Online Crooks Exploit WTC Disaster
News Grieving people are flooding the Internet for solace and solidarity after Tuesday's terrorist attacks, but consumer advocates warn they may also find scams and spam online. Still, academics were shocked at the volume and immediacy of scams...
[September 14, 2001, 9:34]
Gates: Orwell Was Wrong About Big Brother
News The US Department of Justice has drafted a legislative proposal asking for more surveillance powers, while congressional scrutiny of the Pentagon's Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) initiative is increasing.
[June 26, 2003, 8:10]
Sydney And London Call Centres Take Calls For Veritas
News In the aftermath of what has been described as the worst terrorist attack in history -- in which both towers of New York's World Trade Center were razed by hijacked commercial planes -- chief executive Gary Bloom said all the company's east coast...
[September 12, 2001, 12:01]
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]
Communication Interception Goes Global
News Security agencies around the world will soon be able to share intercepted information on criminal and 'terrorist' activities far more easily after a new technical framework is introduced, a committee claims.
[January 24, 2003, 9:05]
Russia Gets Ready To Gag Online Dissent
News And the US Patriot Act, passed just weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, granted law enforcement unprecedented powers to monitor Internet communications. For instance, it says that a state organisation could temporarily...
[June 25, 2002, 9:29]
Tech Giants Scramble To Track Down Workers
News Terrorist attacks on Tuesday, including the crashing of hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, left many technology companies scrambling to track down employees. Although an HP spokesperson confirmed that "no HP employees were...
[September 13, 2001, 10:25]
No. 10 Web Site Collapses From Heavy Demand
News Downing Street Web site was still out of action on Monday, after collapsing under the pressure of its heaviest-ever traffic last week when a document linking Osama bin Laden to the terrorist attacks on 11 September was published on the site.
[October 8, 2001, 16:03]
News Roundup: Attack On America
News Monday 17th September The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has asked ISPs to retain communications data for the next month, to aid the US terrorist investigations Thursday 13th September The investigation into the attacks moves online as US...
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
