Sen. Bob Bennett was appointed Monday to head a new Senate group designed to be a central clearing house for information on how to combat cyber-attacks. Full Story …
FBI Chief Says Cyber Attacks Doubled in a Year
The number of cyber crimes being investigated by the FBI has doubled in the past year and last month's attacks on leading Web sites are the tip of the iceberg, said FBI director Louis Freeh on …
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Canada Called Hotbed of Cyberterrorism
An American intelligence agency has determined that up to 80 percent of foreign attacks on U.S. computers either originate or pass through Canada. The claim follows suspicions that some recent hacker …
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Memorial Institute To Host National Conference To Focus On Terrorism Prevention
The causes and effects of terrorism will be the first international conference of its kind in the new millennium sponsored by the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of …
Former hostage wins $341 million verdict against Iran
Former hostage Terry Anderson was awarded $341 million from Iran on Friday by a federal judge who said his treatment during his nearly seven years of captivity in Beirut was "savage and cruel by any …
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Animal rights terrorism eyed in bombing
Police are investigating whether the package bomb that exploded Saturday in the Chandler home of a Revlon cosmetics manager was the work of animal rights terrorists, among other possibilities. Full …
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Federal CIO Needed for Web Security
Former Senate Year 2000 Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, said Thursday that the numerous legislative and agency efforts to address cyber security may need the guidance of a single …
Big Increase in Net Warfare Predicted
The already legendary distributed denial of service attacks that brought down popular corporate Web sites earlier this year is only a minor variation on the shape of things to come, and the US must …
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EgyptAir Probe – U.S. Holds to Theory That Co-Pilot Crashed the Plane
A U.S. government inquiry into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 into the Atlantic has entered a new and possibly final phase in which the main question must be confronted: Did a reserve co-pilot, …
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Lebanon Grants Political Asylum to 1 of 5 Japan Terrorists
Lebanon granted political asylum today to Kozo Okamoto, a 52-year-old Japanese man who helped carry out a massacre in which 26 people died at an airport in Israel in 1972. Simultaneously, the Beirut …
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