State of Fear
It is scenes like the one above at our nation's capital today that re-inforce just how…
How bizarre...
You can Google colleagues, you can Google blind dates and you can Google kidnap victims: Google 'saved' Australian hostage - - An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google…
Disaster waiting to happen
Coming from the guy who wrote the Cyberthreat Assessment for the National Airspace System, it would not surprise me if this story is true. A major breakdown in Southern California's air traffic control system last week was partly due to a "design…
Al Qaeda's Geek
Congrats to the folks within the U.S. intelligence community. Turns out the cyber component of this arrest was the most significant. The unannounced capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan several weeks ago led the Central Intelligence…
Keep your finger off the trigger...we're only at Code Yellow
As the Democratic National Convention opens Monday, the city of Boston will be under an unprecedented $60…
The New Face of Terrorism?
A lot has been written, broadcast and discussed regarding Annie Jacobsen's recent piece…
Failure of Imagination
Given I've briefed the term "Failure of Imagination" to thousands of people in over 100 presentations in the past…
If you were drawn here basd on my cyber security and…Nine Hundred and eleven days later
As a terrorism expert, I was immediately confronted by the fact that under certain calculations, the bombings in Madrid last week were 911 days after September 11, 2001. Snopes.com provides on of the best explanations on the coincidence that I have…