In many Arab states nearly 11 months after the September attacks in the United States, there is a steady trend toward historical revisionism that promotes Al Qaeda leaders as the “good guys” and US officials as the “bad guys” in an ethics and morality public relations war that is far from over. Full Story

Several of Osama Bin Laden`s bodyguards are among prisoners currently being held in a prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, US reports say. Full Story

India`s defense minister claimed Monday that Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan and Pakistani intelligence officials are aware of it. Islamabad denied his claim. Full Story

The United Nations suspended humanitarian operations in Chechnya today after a Russian aid worker was kidnapped in the breakaway southern region where Russian troops and Islamic separatists continue to wage a brutal guerrilla war. Full Story

The French interior ministry said yesterday it planned to outlaw Unité Radicale, the far-right group that counts among its members the neo-Nazi activist who earlier this month tried to assassinate President Jacques Chirac on the Champs-Elysées. Full Story

Greek police are examining a statement allegedly issued by the urban guerrilla group, November 17, claiming it is still active. The text, published in a leading newspaper, says that although it has lost many of its members, the far-left organisation may be stepping up its campaign in the future. Full Story

After more than a year of legal argument, Ireland`s anti-terrorist court on Tuesday set a tentative start date for one of the most prominent criminal cases in the country`s history, pitting an alleged terror chief against an American spy. Full Story

Indonesia defended its record in fighting terrorism on Tuesday as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell lent support, hinting Washington was ready to consider resuming military ties. Full Story

Colombian Marxist guerrillas on Tuesday released two Canadians and one Frenchman they had kidnapped in April after the trio`s helicopter made an emergency landing in a war-torn area in southern Colombia. Full Story

Battles raged between rival Somali warlords in the southern town of Baidoa on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 30, witnesses and hospital sources said. Full Story

The agreement, the latest bid to end a war that has embroiled six African nations, commits Rwanda to pull its 30,000 troops from Congo in exchange for Congo repatriating thousands of Rwandan rebels that have used the country as a base for attacks on Rwanda. Full Story

Sudanese government-backed forces killed a foreign aid worker and abducted three others in an oil-rich area of Sudan, a U.N. official said Tuesday. A rebel leader said the government killed some 1,000 civilians in a separate attack in the same region. Full Story

China is developing high-technology arms, including laser weapons and radio-frequency bombs, to boost its ability to successfully carry out warfare against the United States and other advanced military powers, according to a recent Pentagon report. Full Story

The discovery that employees are attacking internal systems is a challenge because the majority of security monitoring is focused on the outside perimeter of the organization, not on the inside. Full Story

Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman apologized yesterday for snooping by at least one Princeton admissions officer into online files of high school seniors who had applied to Ivy League rival Yale University. “Basic principles of privacy and confidentiality are at stake here,” Tilghman wrote in an e-mail to Princeton students and faculty. “Violations of these…

Hewlett Packard has found a new club to use to pound researchers who unearth flaws in the company`s software: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Invoking both the controversial 1998 DMCA and computer crime laws, HP has threatened to sue a team of researchers who publicized a vulnerability in the company`s Tru64 Unix operating system. Full…

When Web operator Jon Messner gained control of one of al-Qaida`s prime Internet communication sites, he offered it to the FBI to use it for disinformation and collecting data about sympathizers. Full Story

For anyone keeping track of Microsoft security bulletins, the company issued numbers 36, 37, 38, and 39–plus an update to number 32–for 2002 last week. That`s fewer than the 42 bulletins issued by this time in 2001, and the 52 issued by July 2000–which I suppose is a good thing for all of us. The…

Minor network penetration attempts fall well beneath the threshold of viable lawsuits. Massive DoS attacks that bring down commerce servers for several days are a different story, But portscans, SubSeven Trojans, BackOrifice attacks and the like are not enough to show actual damage, other than a small amount of abused bandwidth. Full Story

All future federal grants to state and local governments for homeland defense will be contingent on the states demonstrating progress in achieving communications interoperability with other emergency response organizations, according to the president`s “National Strategy for Homeland Defense” report. Full Story

Microsoft is enrolling a team of academic researchers to boost its security efforts and develop new technologies based on its .Net technology. The company Monday announced the formation of the Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, which will bring together academics from 12 to 15 colleges and universities to study and contribute to Microsoft`s recent effort…

The Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) are, in the United Kingdom, the first in this new wave of ‘cyberlaws’ – legislation designed to reinforce privacy rights threatened by the unregulated dissemination of information, in a world where everything from birth records to shopping habits are stored electronically. Full…

In February 2000, online hackers launched what`s known as a “denial of service” attack, shutting down eBay, Amazon.com, CNN.com and other major Web sites for as long as three hours. By some estimates, the event cost the companies $1.2 billion. Full Story

A California superior court ruled Monday that the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers must hand over corporate documents requested by one of its board members, marking the latest chapter in an ongoing legal scuffle between the much maligned Internet regulatory body and ICANN North American Elected Director Karl Auerbach. Full Story

This year might seem like a summer break compared to last year`s swarm of viruses, including Code Red and Nimda , that wreaked havoc on computer systems worldwide. But experts say that viruses and the mechanisms for spreading them continue to evolve. Full Story

An Auckland firm has built encryption software it claims offers the highest level of encryption available, but a local expert questions its practicality. It was used as a manual system in World War II and relies on the sender and the receiver both having the same secret “keys” of random characters.Each character of the message…

As is usual, Mr Megacz made the browser makers aware of the problem thirty days ago but, as yet, none has come up with a fix. Expect hackers vereywhere to be fiddling with this little chink in the armoured Web, just because they can. Full Story

Palladium will create a “trusted space” within a PC where certain applications and operations can run, and will require a security chip and rewritten software designed to take advantage of the chip. Because the “trusted space” will be separate from Windows, Palladium should be able to better protect sensitive information and stop the spread of…

The Justice Department intends to consolidate its data networks and implement a public-key infrastructure, according to a plan it issued Friday. The department’s IT Strategic Plan points out that Justice runs more than 250 systems, most of them legacy applications developed by component organizations to meet specific needs. Full Story

This group operates in Peru but has suffered from President Fujimori`s government offensive against MRTA, as well as the ubiquitous Sendero Luminoso (SL). Nonetheless, the pro-Cuban MRTA has been responsible for more anti-American attacks than any other group operating in Latin America. These incidents have recently focused on kidnapping-for-ransom, a growing industry amongst such groups…

Winn Schwartau is one of the earliest architects of the information warfare concept. In this second edition of his most popular title “Information Warfare”, Schwartau supplements his own thoughts and experiences in the fields with those of numerous other security professionals. This book is a must-read introdcution to the topic. More Reviews

Afghan authorities have arrested a foreigner in connection with what could have been a devastating bomb attack on the capital Kabul, Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah said on Tuesday. Full Story

07/31/1978France, Iraq – An Al-Fatah Terrorist Seizes Iraqi Embassy 07/31/1969Spain – The terrorist group Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) was founded. Full Story and More Dates

A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday at a central Jerusalem fast-food stand popular with police, wounding seven Israelis. In the West Bank, gunmen killed two Israeli settlers who had entered a Palestinian village. It was the first suicide bombing in Jerusalem since a pair of attacks June 18-19 killed 26 Israelis and prompted…

South East Asian countries have agreed to work together to combat terrorism. “We recognised that terrorism is a global threat,” said a statement issued by ministers of the Association of South East Asian nations (Asean), meeting in Brunei. Full Story

The United States is insisting that a proposed anti-terrorism treaty with Southeast Asian countries not contain wording that could impede its efforts against terrorism, a senior Asian diplomat said Sunday. Full Story

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the government is believed to have detained about two dozen people under the material-witness law. Because such proceedings are almost always secret, little is known about the detainees or their cases. Full Story

When the federal government promised last fall to compensate the relatives of victims who were killed or injured on Sept. 11, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America urged its members to join an altruistic and patriotic endeavor without precedent: offering free legal advice to the thousands of bereaved families who would be in line…

Whiz-bang ideas flooded the Pentagon last fall after it asked for help combating terrorism. Over the Defense Department`s transom, companies pitched 12,500 plans for everything from improved face-recognition software to sensors for protecting courthouses and spying overseas. Full Story

Police arrested a man who threatened to blow up the Los Angeles Times newspaper building, but found only paper documents in his backpack after his threat evacuated a square block in the heart of downtown. Full Story

Senior members of Britain`s Muslim community on Tuesday claimed that “foreign agencies” are signing up disaffected young Islamic men to join extremist militant organizations in the Middle East. Full Story

Osama bin Laden`s al Qaida network will carry out a series of operations in August and the suspected terrorist mastermind will appear in a taped recording soon after that, the London-based Ash Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Tuesday. Sources, who the newspaper said were close to bin Laden`s supporters, told Ash Sharq al-Awsat al Qaida had…

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that air strikes alone cannot destroy Saddam Hussein`s buried and mobile sites for weapons of mass destruction. Full Story

An Israeli orchestra has been forced to cancel a tour of the United States because of terrorism fears. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was due to play in the US in August as part of a world tour – but it was feared that their performances could be targetted. Full Story

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said he is pushing for a ceasefire among hardline factions despite last week`s devastating Israeli air raid on Gaza, as Israel promised to alleviate Palestinian suffering by handing over frozen funds. Full Story

Osama bin Laden`s son Saad has become a rising star in his father`s terrorist network, gaining so much new authority that U.S. counterterrorism officials now consider him among their top two dozen targets in al-Qaida. Full Story

Osama bin Laden`s al-Qaida network and six other Islamic organizations have been designated terrorist groups under a new Canadian law that makes it illegal to have any contact with them. The list published July 23 also names the Armed Islamic Group and Salafist Group for Call and Combat of Algeria, Al Jihad, Al-Gama`a Al Islamiyya…

The Greek left-wing urban guerrilla group November 17 was planning a barrage of attacks before its activities came to an abrupt end one month ago, an alleged member has reportedly told police. Full Story

Italian police are trying to learn if a document-forging operation in Turin served as a logistical base for al-Qaida, authorities said Monday. The document center, an apartment in a Turin neighborhood populated by many illegal immigrants, was raided in December, said Luciano Nigro, a Turin police precinct chief, and investigation into its operations have been…

A would-be assassin of Afghan leaders was intercepted in Kabul when his automobile, loaded with explosives, was involved in a traffic accident, national television reported Monday. Full Story

This is the first major US engagement with suspected Al Qaeda forces since Operation Anaconda last spring, indicating that there are still pockets of resistance along Afghanistan`s eastern flank, on the Pakistan border. Full Story

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir say two people have been killed and another three wounded in a suspected militant attack on Hindu pilgrims. The incident happened when a grenade was thrown at a taxi south of Srinagar on its way to the Amarnath cave shrine. Full Story

Fresh concern mounted last night in the dispute between India and Pakistan after Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, said he believed Islamist militants were still crossing into Kashmir despite repeated promises from Islamabad that all infiltration had stopped. Full Story

Taiwan used to worry only about an old-fashioned invasion from rival China, with Chinese soldiers sailing to storm the beaches and impose communist rule. Now, the island says its defense focus is having to shift to more futuristic threats: Internet viruses, killer satellites, electromagnetic pulses that could fry computer networks vital to Taiwan`s defense and…

On a mission to stamp out Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia, Secretary of State Colin Powell held talks on Monday with Thai leaders, who deny their country is facing a Muslim insurgency. Full Story

An Egyptian military court has convicted 16 men – mainly academics and professionals – of belonging to the outlawed Islamic group, the Muslim Brotherhood. Full Story

The presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signed a peace deal in South Africa on Tuesday designed to end Africa`s biggest war. Full Story

A Sudanese minister called on Monday for other factions in the country to take part in the next round of peace talks with southern rebels and said President Omar Hassan al-Bashir supported the idea. Full Story

More than 1,000 people have been killed in attacks by government forces in western Upper Nile province, says a Sudanese rebel spokesman. Full Story

More than 1,000 people have been killed in attacks by government forces in western Upper Nile province, says a Sudanese rebel spokesman. Full Story