Did U.S. infowar commandos smuggle a deadly computer virus into Iraq inside a printer? Of course not. So why does it keep getting reported? Full Story
Blogging has momentum. William Gibson is on-line and operating a blog that gets updated daily. It provides for great reading from one of my favorite authors of all time. If you haven’t had a chance to check out his latest book “Pattern Recognition”, I highly recommend it. Just today, he posted the following information regarding [...]
In 1994, I wrote a paper that looked at issues relating to virtual reality and philosophy. One of my main arguments was that true pervasive virtual reality, where the user couldn’t distinguish or remember the real world, was closely aligned to concepts of Hinduism. Since then, we had several movies on the topic, including the [...]
A Pakistani security agency has launched a special wing to combat cyber crimes in part because the country had to rely on U.S. investigators to trace e-mails sent by the kidnappers of American journalist Daniel Pearl a year ago. “The purpose of establishing the National Response Center for Cyber Crimes is to stop misuse of [...]
This is an interesting story. In the end, a combination of technology and hard cash lead to KSM’s arrest. Note the part of the story that indicates that KSM used as many as 10 cell phones to communicate. The story…. The electronic surveillance network Echelon played a key role in the capture of the alleged [...]
Sometimes stories like this don’t even make it onto my radar screen for over a year. This is an interesting an humorous article. Unfortunately, they reduce the level of credibility associated with those that would counter that cyberterorrism is not an issue by including comments from folks like Friedman. I haven’t seen George Friedman out [...]
A terrorism expert hosted by the Centre for Defence Studies believes cyber space could be the next target for terrorist organisations. Founding director and CEO of the Terrorist Research Centre at Burke, Virginia, Matthew Devost believes “cyber terrorists”, individuals and organisations using computers, the Internet and electronic communication devices for their activities, are likely to [...]
That’s the title of an editorial on Slate.com discussing cyberterrorism. It has been forwarded to me by several friends indicating that I should respond. I just don’t have the bandwidth for a formal response and this angle has already been addressed in several of my articles including “Taking Cyberterrorism Seriously” by Neal Pollard and myself. [...]
An international cyber establishment has warned Europe of a possible attack of cyber terrorism in case war against Iraq breaks out. Such cyber terrorism and possible hacking of networks may put in jeopardy key European infrastructures such as water, electricity and transport, according to sources. Full Story
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