Morocco brushed off European Union demands that it withdraw a handful of soldiers deployed on a tiny Mediterranean island in a growing dispute with Spain, saying Monday that the islet is an “integral part” of its territory. Full Story

Congolese are so tired of the war crippling this giant country that thousands of them rushed into the streets full of hope this spring when soldiers mutinied against the Rwandan-backed rebel army ruling this city. All were angry at the rebel group, the Congolese Rally for Democracy-Goma, for refusing to sign a peace accord worked…

Rebels in Burundi have killed 13 people in an ambush on a pickup lorry in the north of the country, an army spokesman said. The spokesman, Colonel Augustin Nzabampema, said the attack took place on the road near Buhayira in Cibitoke province, about 40 kilometres north of the capital Bujumbura. Full Story

THE US may have designated Iran, Iraq and North Korea as its “axis of evil”, but a detailed studying of cyber-terrorism has found most hacking originates from the nation`s traditional allies. A report by internet security group Riptech finds only 1 per cent of hacking over the past six months originated from countries on the…

Antivirus firms issue strong warning Antivirus firms have released an updated warning concerning a month-old worm on the rise in Asia and expected to be seen on the increase in Europe. As reported on vnunet.com, infections of the worm in Africa and Asia occurred this time last month. The Frethem worm, which reportedly started in…

The House voted yesterday to increase penalties for computer crimes and make it easier for Internet service providers to disclose dangerous material to government agencies. The legislation also states that immediate threats to national security should be included among emergency instances where law enforcement can tap into computer communications. Full Story

A new computer virus that is being propagated through e-mail under the title of “Re: Your password!” is causing problems with online traffic in the country, Ahnlab Inc. said Tuesday. The comprehensive Internet security solutions firm said that it has upgraded its V3 Anti-Virus Solution engine to handle the Frethem worm (Win32/Frethem.48640), and has warned…

The costs of major virus infections can be catastrophic, with companies losing hundreds of hours or more in employee productivity. At the same time, companies appear to do a good job in preventing such catastrophes. According to a survey of 300 respondents who worked for companies or government agencies with more than 500 PCs, two…

Security watchers have been receiving concerned inquiries after a worm-like computer virus using Latin diva Shakira as bait appeared in the wild. The worm lures users into executing a Visual Basic Script (VBS) by pretending to be a picture of the sexy singer. The virus arrives as an email attachment with a double extension –…

AT&T Corp. T.N has warned employees not to be tricked into surrendering sensitive information about its network to hackers posing as colleagues or customers this weekend, a spokeswoman said on Friday. The warning, sent in an e-mail to AT&T staff, came ahead of a major hackers convention in New York where some of the attendees…

Two security holes in a graphical user interface common on Unix and Linux systems from vendors such as IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. could allow an attacker to launch a denial-of-service attack or overwrite files on affected systems, according to a new security bulletin released yesterday by the Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center…

Symantec Security Response has discovered a new worm today, W32.Liac.A@mm. The worm is a mass mailer and will email itself to all addresses in the Outlook Address Book. Symantec Security Response has rated this worm a 3 on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most serious. Full Story

The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups. The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program…

A broad cross-section of trade associations and individual companies from the U.S. chemical industry is moving forward this month with a comprehensive plan for improving cybersecurity at chemical companies and facilities. Full Story

For the first time ever, federal, state and local government officials are partnering with representatives from the private sector and the utilities community in a exercise designed to identify the links between them in responding to and defending against cyberterror. Full Story

A Chicago insurance brokerage is suing three of its former employees, claiming that they hacked into its computer systems. The Near North National Group claimed that the trio stole emails and other commercially sensitive information which they then passed on to business rivals. Full Story

A bill to expand research on securing computer networks from hackers has stalled in the Senate because critics have denounced provisions that would require federal agencies to adopt technology-security standards. Full Story

The Office of Management and Budget may freeze funds for information technology projects at agencies slated to join the proposed Homeland Security Department. Officials aim to save money by identifying redundant plans for core IT systems and networks at the nearly two dozen agencies folding into the new department. Full Story

Microsoft`s SQL Labs, the part of the company that works on Microsoft`s SQL Server, is using NetScreen`s 500-series security appliance to defend its network against Code Red, Nimda and other worm attacks, according to a statement released by NetScreen. Apparently, the labs` choice was made despite the fact that Microsoft already sells its own security…

Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are an important component of defensive measures protecting computer systems and networks from abuse. This article gives an overview of the most commonly used intrusion detection (ID) techniques. It considers the role of IDSs in the overall defensive posture of an organization and provides guidelines for their deployment, operation, and maintenance.…

Elcomsoft, the Russian company facing criminal charges for the creation of tools to circumvent Adobe`s eBook software, has published details of further holes in Adobe`s products. Full Story

Corporate IT managers have been advised that they might receive earlier notification of flaws in the Apache Web server if they join the Apache Group`s developer mailing list. Full Story

The ASG is the smallest and most radical of the Islamic separatist groups operating in the southern Philippines. Some ASG members have studied or worked in the Middle East and developed ties to mjuahidin while fighting and training in Afghanistan. The group split from the Moro National Liberation Front in 1991 under the leadership of…

Terrorism: An Introduction by Jonathan R. White is a first-rate textbook on terrorism. White, a former police officer and presently a professor, provides a criminal justice perspective to the study of terrorism–yet the book is applicable to those with a political science or military orientation. White offers chapters on definitions, typologies, motivations, structures of terrorist…

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…

07/15/1974Cyprus, Greece – Greek Army Officers Stage Coup 07/15/1983France – Armenian terrorists exploded at bomb at Orly Airport in Paris. 07/15/1971Japan – Ultra-radical factions of the new Left joined forces as the Combined Red Army, the predecessor of the Japanese Red Army (JRA). 07/15/1958Lebanon – U.S. Marines were sent to Lebanon in order to thwart…

American citizens may be among those serving as behind-the-scenes advisers to al-Qaida cells operating in the United States, law enforcement officials say. Some of the suspected advisers are believed to be immersed in American life and able to financially direct an attack without directly participating in it, the officials said. Some may be U.S. citizens.…

On the morning of July 9, 2001, Mohamed Atta drove a silver Hyundai rental car east out of Madrid toward this Mediterranean beach area, a ribbon of resorts crowded with vacationers. The attacks on New York and the Pentagon were just weeks away and Atta was headed to a secret meeting to complete the planning,…

Adding to a growing list of Congressional concerns about domestic security, a study released today warns that the president`s plan for a new Department of Homeland Security is too ambitious and could create more problems than it solves. Full Story

After passing the antiterrorism bill in record time in the fall, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are making an unusually prompt and thorough, if sometimes unsuccessful, effort to determine how the Justice Department is using its new powers. Full Story

Within the next two weeks, the man responsible for distributing billions of taxpayer dollars to thousands of families who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will decide two dozen test cases that will at last establish the rough boundaries for the sizes of the awards. Full Story

As the sandal-footed crowds started the great schlepp to Martha`s Vineyard for its high season, Peter Martell took a day trip to the mainland recently to learn how to immediately decontaminate anyone zapped with nuclear, chemical, or biological agents. Full Story

Three senior Republican lawmakers bitterly criticized the White House today for refusing to spend as much money on the military and domestic defense as Congress wants, saying the Bush administration was endangering national security by adhering to a rigid bottom line. Full Story

A federal judge, acknowledging national security concerns, ruled yesterday that the government should have a say in what is turned over to the families that have sued airlines, security firms, and others in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Full Story

A federal appeals court yesterday blocked an American-born man captured in Afghanistan from seeing a public defender and strongly suggested that the government has the right to detain enemy combatants without a lawyer during wartime. Full Story

John Walker Lindh, an American captured by U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty on Monday to aiding the Taliban fundamentalist movement and carrying explosives while doing so. Full Story

With a promise to remember the dead and a vow of vengeance, New York on Monday marked the end of efforts to recover human remains and personal belongings from the World Trade Center wreckage. Full Story

Lawmakers looking at intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks say they`ve uncovered numerous problems — but not a single, massive error that allowed the hijackings to occur. Full Story

Outside the chalk-white tent, the whistle of traffic along the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive signals the forward movement of a city. But inside, 16 refrigerated trailers hum in a ceaseless chorus, giving voice to the dead whose remains are contained in their hold. Full Story

The Halliburton Company, the Dallas oil services company bedeviled lately by an array of accounting and business issues, is benefiting very directly from the United States efforts to combat terrorism. Full Story

Police want to question a tour guide for a group of German and other foreign tourists who were injured in an explosion at an archaeological site in Pakistan, an official said Sunday. The guide disappeared from the site soon after the blast, which authorities said may have been caused by a grenade thrown at the…

The man who killed two people at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport had been having money problems and his business was on the verge of collapse, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Full Story

Mexican farmers fighting plans to build an international airport on their land freed 15 government hostages early Monday as a tense four-day standoff with security forces drew toward a close. Full Story

Osama bin Laden is alive and planning another attack on the United States, an Arab journalist with close ties to the Saudi-born militant`s associates said on Monday. Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London based al-Quds al-Arabi magazine, said bin Laden`s associates told him that al-Qaeda network has regrouped and was determined to strike the United…

Some of the world`s best-known hackers unveiled a plan this weekend to offer free software to promote anonymous Web surfing in countries where the Internet is censored, especially China and Middle Eastern nations. Full Story

Israeli troops captured a Palestinian would-be suicide bomber after he opened fire at a military patrol conducting searches outside a Palestinian village near the West Bank border, the army said. Full Story

The European Union stepped up the pressure on Morocco to withdraw its troops from the disputed Mediterranean island of Perejil Monday as Spain dispatched submarines, warships and attack helicopters to protect its North African territories. Moroccan troops raised the national flag over the uninhabited island Thursday, sparking an immediate outcry from Spain, which claims the…

Weapons allegedly ordered by Islamic rebels in Indonesia and smuggled from Cambodia have been intercepted in southern Thailand and three smugglers were arrested, Thai officials said Monday. Police said the weapons, including 68 AK-47 assault rifles, five machine guns and five anti-tank rockets, were seized Sunday night by police and military forces from a fishing…

The head of Germany`s foreign intelligence agency said in an interview published Saturday that he believes Osama bin Laden is still alive and hiding along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. August Hanning, the head of the Federal Intelligence Service, also estimated that more than 5,000 supporters of al-Qaida and Afghanistan`s ousted Taliban militia remain…

One of Osama bin Laden`s top deputies, Abu Zubaydah, is being held at a U.S. naval facility on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, Time magazine reported on Sunday. Zubaydah is the highest-ranking al Qaeda member known to have been taken into U.S. custody during Washington`s war against terrorism triggered by the Sept. 11…

A Palestinian, angered by the killing of three relatives in an Israeli air strike on Islamic militants, burst into a courtroom on Sunday and shot dead a man on trial for allegedly betraying the trio, witnesses said. The three members of the Islamic militant group Hamas died in the Israeli air strike in the Gaza…

An Israeli F-16 warplane attacked the home of a senior Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip on Sunday but he escaped without injury seconds before missiles slammed into the building, Palestinian witnesses said. Full Story

Israeli forces prevented a vehicle filled with explosives from entering Israel from the West Bank city of Qalqilya, the Israel Defense Forces said. An Israeli reserve force spotted the car about to leave Qalqilya — located on the border with Israel — on Friday night and fired into the air, prompting the driver to stop.…

The leader of Lebanon`s Hizbollah guerrillas said on Saturday the group was not connected to the al Qaeda network, blamed for the September 11 attacks. “There is no relationship with al Qaeda — not previously and not now — and not for religious or ideological reasons but for political reasons,” Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told the…

U.S. warplanes bombed Iraqi air-defense facilities on Saturday after coalition aircraft patrolling a “no-fly” zone in the south of the country came under fire, the U.S. military said. Full Story

Victims` relatives have told Nelson Mandela that they would not object to the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing serving his sentence in another country. Full Story

Two Moroccans accused of having ties with a Tunisian described as a logistics man for Osama bin Laden have formally denied such a link, their lawyer said Saturday. The Moroccans, Mohamed Kazdari, 37, and his 32-year-old brother, Said, were captured Thursday in a sweep by Milan`s anti-terrorism police. Full Story

A deranged neo-Nazi fired a rifle shot in an attempt to assassinate President Jacques Chirac during France`s Bastille Day parade on Sunday, but the man was quickly subdued and the march continued uninterrupted. Full Story

Four Islamic militants were convicted Monday in kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter, and the chief defendant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, was sentenced to death, deputy defense lawyer Mohsin Imam said. The three others were sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Full Story

Mujheeb Rehmen knows nothing of computers, thinks Jews conspired with the CIA to destroy the World Trade Center and believes that “jihad is a part of life.” He learned it all in school. Full Story