Archive for the 'Cyberterrorism' Category

• 10.8.07 “Cyber Jihadist” Trial posted in Cyberterrorism, Free Expression, International, News Monitor

  The trial of a man accused of “virtual jihad” is about to start in Germany, reports dw-world.de. The case will focus on whether the (re) posting of audio and video files on the Internet along with the occasion appeal for jihad constitutes “attempting to recruit members” for terrorist organizations.
  “It’s an important trial because [...]

• 6.11.06 Network or Nodes? posted in Cyberterrorism, Internet Surveillance

  Canadian media coverage has focused on the recent arrests of seventeen Canadians suspected of planning to detonate bombs in Ontario. In addition to the predictable sensationalist, wildy speculative coverage, which truly was awful, reports of Canada’s electronic surveillance capabilities are emerging.
  Police credited Internet surveillance with playing a key role in the recent arrests while [...]

• 2.16.06 CyberStorm posted in Cyberterrorism, InfoWar, Uncategorized

  AP reports:
  The government concluded its “Cyber Storm” wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.
  mock cyberterrorism = “no impact on the real Internet”.
  Oh, and the Internet “survived”.

• 11.30.05 Hacking Ghost Stories posted in Cyberterrorism, Uncategorized

  There have been a variety of reports lately on “Titan Rain”, an apparent cracker attack on US military computers that may have originated in China. The story orginally surfaced in the Washinton Post which reported that “Web sites in China” (1) were being used attack “hundreds of unclassified networks” run by the DoD and the [...]

• 9.12.04 Cyberterrorism re-surfacing? posted in Cyberterrorism, Uncategorized

  Back in 2002, I wrote that the discourse surrounding �cyberterrorism is dominated by sensationalist and alarmist analysis based on selective interpretation of partial facts and speculation by unnamed officials and experts. Demonstrating a stunning lack of vision, the alarmist conclusions drawn by such study are buoyed by fantastic, ill-conceived scenarios that defy the circumstances and [...]