President Robert Mugabe`s government announced on Monday that it planned to prosecute a local newspaper for a news report linking the names of the president`s wife and al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Full Story

State officials will begin hearing from the FBI`s National Infrastructure Protection Center about cyberthreats and terrorism under a new agreement. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers announced a memorandum of understanding with the NIPC, saying it is a step toward creating a full-featured Interstate Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Full Story

A Houston computer security analyst has been charged with hacking after demonstrating the insecurity of a county courts wireless LAN. Stefan Puffer, 33, was indicted by a Grand Jury on Wednesday with two counts of fraud for allegedly breaking into Harris County district clerk`s wireless computer system. It`s believed to be the first case of…

Has auction fraud gotten worse recently? That depends on whom you ask. Dennis Barringer went hunting for con artists recently after he ordered a laptop computer from an auction seller and received a phone book instead. His vigorous vigilante efforts since then have landed him two death threats. Another vigilante, Michael Carr, says in some…

A former systems administrator for local online art retailer Guild.com says charges that he hacked the company`s system were fabricated. Robert Starks, 21, is facing tentative charges of identity theft, harassment and violations of the state`s computer crimes statute for allegedly intercepting e-mails and channeling people accessing the company`s Web site to his own site,…

The Recording Industry Association of America`s Web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack. The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after the group endorsed legislation to allow copyright holders to disrupt peer-to-peer networks. Full Story

In an unusual arrangement, Tulsa, Okla., police are teaming up with students at the University of Tulsa to help investigate and stop cybercrime. Within the next few weeks, the Tulsa police Cyber Crimes Unit is moving to a new office on the university campus, said Maj. Lynn Jones, who was involved in setting up the…

Right after the attack on the World Trade Center last September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent physicians trained in epidemiological outbreaks to New York City. For several weeks, the physicians, stationed in emergency rooms throughout the city, monitored individuals coming into the ERs around the clock. Full Story

Hackers searching for wireless access points in the nation`s capital may soon war drive right into a trap. Last month researchers at the government contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) launched what might be the first organized wireless honeypot, designed to tempt unwary Wi-Fi hackers and bandwidth borrowers and gather data on their techniques and…

At the height of its game last year, a loose-knit hacking group calling itself Fluffy Bunny appeared able to break into websites at will. For a six-month period starting in mid-2001, Fluffy Bunny penetrated the networks of several top Internet firms, including Exodus, VA Software and Akamai. In effort to expose what it saw as…

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

Lauren Bush, the fashion model and niece of President Bush, was among Yale candidates whose applications were hacked into by an admissions tutor from Princeton, the university`s Ivy League rival. Full Story

Secure site seals handed out to sites by certificate authorities and lock icons shown by browsers can often mislead consumers into believing that a site is more secure than it actually is, according to the latest Netcraft Web Server Survey. Full Story

IT security has always been critical to the financial and government sectors but, today, with the huge rise in network security risks, every business needs to place this issue high on their boardroom or management agenda, said Clive Handley, security specialist at NamITech, the end-to-end security solutions company in the JSE Securities Exchange-listed Nampak group.…

Future versions of military identification cards will encode information about fingerprints or other physical characteristics, the Pentagon`s latest move to tighten security. The newest cards already have information such as name, rank and serial number on a computer chip embedded in the card under the user`s picture. The Defense Department passed out the one-millionth computerized…

A Japanese software maker warned on Monday about a new computer virus called Manymize that exploits software vulnerabilities and infiltrates e-mail systems. Manymize.A spreads by sending virus copies to e-mail addresses from a computer`s address book, Tokyo-based Trend Micro Inc said on its website. Full Story

Afraid that Peru may adopt a bill decreeing the use of open-source software in all government systems, Microsoft apparently enlisted the American ambassador in Lima to help try to convince the Peruvians to kill the legislation. Wired News has obtained a copy of a letter sent by U.S. Ambassador John Hamilton to the president of…

The Transportation Security Administration needs to do a better job of focusing not just on law enforcement, but also on customer service, the agency’s new leader said Friday. In his first interview as acting administrator, retired Adm. James Loy told Government Executive that TSA has to “swing the pendulum slightly” towards customer service. Full Story

Malaysian schoolchildren and teachers are to be allowed to use pirated software under a radical plan being considered by the country`s government. Full Story

Shining Path is considered by many to be the most dangerous and violent terrorist organization in the world. The group derives its name from Mariategui, an avowed Marxist, who once stated that Marxism was a “shining path to the future.” Yet, despite this apparent connection, Shining Path espouses a neo-Maoist orientation and was formed as…

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August 12-13, 2002 — Boston, MAParticipants will examine: * Terrorist Attack Profiles * Terrorist Training * Terrorist Tactics * Terrorist Targeting * Emerging Technologies * Threat of Cyberterrorism * Newest Aviation Security Threat Information This class led by nationally recognized terrorism experts. Participants will learn first hand about the current threats from both domestic and…

07/29/1987Sri Lanka – Indo-Sri Lankan Peace Accords 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

Fighting terrorism and rebuilding economies should be priorities for South East Asian nations, the Sultan of Brunei has told a regional meeting. The economic situation was the most important issue for the people of the region but security was vital if inward investment was to be attracted, host Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said in his opening…

National Guard troops helping to guard borders with Canada and Mexico can`t look for lawbreakers while they are flying to their new posts, and some haven`t been allowed to carry weapons on duty. Full Story

President Bush`s hopes to set up a Homeland Security Department before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks could be jeopardized by an issue that was a mere footnote to the ambitious reorganization of the government: what employment rights the new department`s 170,000 government workers should have. Full Story

The Police Department plans to create seven internal task forces to address problems that were uncovered by a consultant`s review of the department`s response to the Sept. 11 attack, according to a draft of the study. Full Story

The 1,100 students who attend Earlham College in West Richmond, Ind., can expect to spend at least part of Sept. 10 in workshops that recreate what they were thinking and doing on that date last year — and considering, in hindsight, how narrow their views of the world were. Full Story

Neighbours and acquaintances of Mohamed Mansour Jabarah in St. Catharines, Ont., were aghast to discover last night that the man who had lived among them for almost a decade is accused of being a cell leader for the al-Qaeda terror organization. The 20-year-old Mr. Jabarah, who is being held at a detention centre somewhere in…

Pope John Paul II, speaking last night to more than half a million young pilgrims at a candlelight vigil, declared that the terrorism of last Sept. 11 was an “icon of a world in which hostility and hatred seem to prevail.” Full Story

The Republican-led House voted Friday to create an enormous Homeland Security Department, the biggest government reorganization in decades. It grants President Bush broad personnel powers he insists are key to confronting an agile, cunning terrorist threat. Full Story

After an eight-year break, a U.S.-led naval coalition is resuming inspection of vessels in the northern Red Sea because of violations of U.N. sanctions against Iraq are being broken in the area, a U.S. Navy spokesman said Sunday. Full Story

Iraq`s breakaway Kurds fear that a possible U.S. attempt to topple President Saddam Hussein could lead to death and destruction for them and their mountainous homeland. Full Story

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) evacuated four terminals just before 1 p.m. Saturday after someone ran through a security checkpoint, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Full Story

Gov. George E. Pataki said yesterday that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey should look beyond the site of the former World Trade Center to other places in downtown Manhattan to rebuild commercial space destroyed in the Sept. 11 attack. Full Story

US officials are putting the final touches on a strategy to combat smallpox in case of a biological attack and promised on Thursday to deliver a plan in a few days or 2 weeks at most. Full Story

The FBI`s new cadre of intelligence analysts has developed a portrait of al-Qaida in which midlevel members are planning attacks as the terrorist group`s more notorious leaders hide from the U.S. military, U.S. officials say. Full Story

Federal authorities in the Seattle area are holding a naval reservist, a non-U.S. citizen, on suspicion of having ties to Islamic radicals with possible connections to the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Full Story

The leader of a national scientific organization has sought the advice of the National Academy of Sciences on whether scientific journals should withhold information that may aid bioterrorists or countries contemplating biological warfare. Full Story

Osama bin Laden`s eldest son, Saad, has taken over as leader of al Qaida, the suspected terrorist network, according to the London-based Arabic daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat. The paper on Monday quoted well-informed sources as saying they had received this information from recently captured members of al Qaida. The sources did not say where the militants…

Bush administration lawyers have concluded that establishing a link between al-Qaeda terrorists and Iraq would provide all the legal justification the administration needs to launch military action against Saddam Hussein`s regime, U.S. officials say. Full Story

Jewish settlers shot dead a Palestinian girl while attacking homes in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday after the funeral of an Israeli soldier killed in a roadside ambush, Palestinian witnesses said. Full Story

Israeli soldiers have arrested two leaders of the militant group Hamas in an overnight raid of a refugee camp in Beitunya, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Full Story

Two senior U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday that there are growing signs that suggest Osama bin Laden is dead. The two officials – one from the FBI, the other from the CIA, both speaking on the condition of anonymity – stressed that neither knew of any concrete evidence. But they said several indications, some of…

In the war on terror, the US is careful to show how fairly it`s treating the hundreds of orange-suited Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters locked behind the razor-wire of the US base at Guantanamo, Cuba. But what the US isn`t trumpeting is a quiet practice of shipping key Al Qaeda suspects to the Middle East…

CNN has confirmed that a suspected al Qaeda terrorist, identified as Mohamed Mansour Jabarah, is being held in the United States in relation to a foiled plot to bomb the American embassies in Jakarta and Singapore and other targets in Southeast Asia. Full Story

An explosion at a nightclub in the western Austrian city of Linz has left 27 people injured, at least two of them seriously. Officials said they had found the remnants of what appeared to be a hand grenade near the DJ`s booth at the X-Large Disco. Full Story

Six women were raped, beaten and tortured after being abducted from a Bosnian nightclub by 15 armed men, UN officials have said. Five of the women were later released, but a sixth has still not be found. Full Story

The United Nations has suspended humanitarian operations in the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya after the kidnapping of a Russian aid worker, officials said. Full Story

French intelligence officials say that Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man charged with crimes related to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, traveled to Afghanistan several times in the late 1990`s to attend terrorist training camps and meet with Al Qaeda officials in Kandahar and Jalalabad. Full Story

Greek police struck again today at the crippled November 17 terrorist group and picked up another prized suspect: an unassuming shopkeeper accused of helping to create Europe`s most elusive urban guerrilla band. Full Story

Five U.S. soldiers were wounded and two of their Afghan allies were killed today when their reconnaissance patrol came under attack during a search for remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban believed to be hiding out in the volatile region near the Pakistani border. Full Story

A senior separatist leader, his aide and a bodyguard have been killed by Indian soldiers in the north-eastern state of Assam. Military officials said the troops raided the hideout of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) in Ghagrapar just after sunrise, and were involved in a fierce encounter with the rebels. Full Story

A bomb exploded in a crowded marketplace in Indonesia`s religiously divided province of Maluku Saturday, injuring 53 people, police said. Full Story

The gunmen slipped into the crowded warren of shacks after sunset. Nanku Ram and his friends were sitting in a tea shop huddled close to a radio, listening to a cricket match, when a grenade exploded near them. Full Story

A suspected terrorist from a previous era is scheduled to appear in federal court this week, where he could face the death penalty for his alleged role in the slaying of two Americans during an airplane hijacking in Pakistan 16 years ago. Full Story

Six suspected Islamic militants were killed Sunday in a fierce gunbattle with police, and four of the dead were suspects in a fatal attack on a Roman Catholic church last year, officials said. Full Story

Russia wants to build six nuclear reactors in Iran and help its southern neighbor explore Caspian Sea oil fields, the government said Friday in a resolution certain to complicate Moscow`s warming relations with Washington. Full Story

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

The Sri Lankan Government has held face-to-face talks with Tamil Tiger rebels in London. A government statement issued in Colombo said the Economic Reforms Minister, Milinda Moragoda, met with the Tiger`s chief negotiator, Anton Balasingham, on Saturday. Full Story