U.S. intelligence intercepted two messages the day before the Sept. 11 attacks that indicated an event was planned the following day, but the communications were not translated until Sept. 12, government sources said on Wednesday. Full Story

Clear signs that terrorists were gearing up for an attack ahead of 11 September “were not acted upon”, a committee of MPs has claimed. Full Story

The White House complained on Thursday that a House-Senate probe into the Sept. 11 attacks had released sensitive information about National Security Agency intercepts. Full Story

Lawmakers from both parties said yesterday that creating a Department of Homeland Security could cost hundreds of millions of dollars, taking issue in the most forceful terms to date with the White House`s contention that all or parts of 22 federal agencies can be merged on a break-even basis. Full Story

Three al Qaeda operatives plotting a terror attack in Morocco argued over whether it would be noble to blow up a cafe even if it meant taking Muslim lives, according to a Moroccan government report. Full Story

Prisoners declared enemy combatants do not have the right to a lawyer and the American judiciary cannot second-guess the military`s classification of such detainees, the Justice Department argued yesterday in a brief to an appeals court. Full Story

The scam was a good old-fashioned one, a time-tested favorite. But the purpose was thoroughly modern, federal prosecutors say: a scheme rooted in a new world order of international terrorism. Full Story

Fifteen people, including four city employees, were arrested on charges they stole more than $52,000 from charities and relief agencies by filing false claims for benefits related to the World Trade Center attack. Full Story

The White House was briefly evacuated on Wednesday after an aircraft flew into restricted airspace several miles away, apparently by accident, but President Bush was never in danger, officials said. Full Story

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, will be re-arraigned on Tuesday after a grand jury approved minor changes to the indictment but included no new allegations. Full Story

New York officials are concerned that ambulances, police cars and firetrucks could be used as high-speed bombs after reports that two unidentified Middle Eastern men tried to buy a replica ambulance with cash, local newspapers reported on Thursday. Full Story

Just weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show. Full Story

A new Cabinet department would plug a major gap in U.S. intelligence by providing independent analysis of CIA and FBI information and bring a unified federal response to terrorist threats, homeland security chief Tom Ridge told Congress Thursday. Full Story

With the CIA and FBI on the hot seat because of what they missed before Sept. 11, few are watching with more interest than members of Capitol Hill`s “Spy Caucus.” Full Story

The Chinese say they`re fighting a war on terror, too. They`re waging their battle in places such as Aksu, at the eastern end of the ancient Silk Road trade route linking China to Central Asia and Europe. Full Story

Patriotism stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks has hastened the demise of the anti-government militia movement, an anti-hate group says. The number of armed citizen militias and “patriot” groups associated with extreme anti-government doctrine dropped by nearly 20% in 2001, according to a new analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Full Story

A car bomb explosion has killed a British man in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The UK Foreign Office said the blast happened at 0945 (0545 GMT) outside a residential compound in the city. Full Story

A Palestinian suicide bomber dashed to a bus stop at northern Jerusalem`s French Hill intersection last night and blew himself up, killing at least seven people, including a five-year-old girl and an infant girl, and wounding 43 others, one critically. The five-year-old girl`s mother was seriously wounded and her one-year-old brother was moderately wounded. Full…

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called on his people to halt attacks on Israelis completely, saying suicide bombings hurt the Palestinian cause. The Palestinian news agency Wafa issued the written statement Thursday, after the second suicide attack in as many days. Full Story

A senior German official said on Wednesday Washington had known about the detention of a German citizen suspected of links to the September 11 attacks on the United States but had failed to inform Berlin. Full Story

A plane carrying 12 suspected mercenaries arrived back in France from Tanzania last night, after being intercepted on its way to Madagascar, the French news agency AFP reports. Full Story

Turkey and Syria have signed a military cooperation agreement, a sign of the improvement in relations between countries whose rivalry nearly led to war as recently as 1998, Turkish newspapers said on Thursday. Full Story

The Sri Lankan government said on Thursday peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels could be delayed but that would not hamper a Norwegian-brokered bid to end one of Asia`s longest wars. Full Story

The Pentagon has approved a plan to send American troops on patrol with Philippine soldiers battling Islamic rebels in the southern Philippines, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday. Full Story

Pakistani police have detained seven men for questioning in connection with last week`s deadly car bombing against a U.S. Consulate and an attack last month that killed 11 French engineers, officials said Thursday. Full Story

The United States will hold military exercises later this week with Malaysia, a month after it signed a joint declaration to fight international terrorism with its moderate Muslim ally. Full Story

India said on Thursday infiltration of militants from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir had nearly ended but troops would remain on the border as long as needed. Full Story

Six Indonesian soldiers and three separatist rebels died in worsening combat in Indonesia`s Aceh province as mediators sought to bring together the warring sides. Full Story

Having been held by Colombian rebels in a remote jungle area for eight months, Dutch biologist Roelant Jonker was finally set free at the weekend. His release came after the ecological project he worked for paid a 7700-euro ransom to the FARC rebels. The FARC is Colombia`s oldest and biggest rebel group and is blamed…

A report released this week by researchers at Dartmouth`s Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) examines the state of investigative tools needed by law enforcement officials who fight cyber crime, committed not only by terrorists but also by organized crime groups, individual “hackers” or nation-states. Full Story

At a town hall meeting on cyber security, experts warned that the risks of going online have become especially prevalent as hackers find new ways to poke holes in Internet security systems. Full Story

The detention of Abdullah al Muhajir, a U.S. citizen, has highlighted what law enforcement authorities and terrorism analysts believe is a growing threat: the recruitment of home-grown terrorists who can move freely throughout the country. Full Story

The tentacles of the Russian mafia may have tapped into the computer system at Arizona State University and at least four other colleges nationwide. A program has apparently been installed that allows the students` credit card numbers, passwords and e-mail to be stolen, according to campus police. Full Story

CALIFORNIAN resident Kevin Mitnick is the world’s most famous computer felon. His two decades of hacking into computer and phone systems have earned him five arrests. But Mitnick is now 39 and apparently a reformed character with a new career as a computer security professional in a classic instance of poacher-turned-gamekeeper. Full Story

Computer viruses are proliferating faster than ever, according to British security company MessageLabs, which reported Tuesday that it caught as many pests in the first half of 2002 as it did in all of last year. The company, which screens corporate e-mail accounts for viruses, said it intercepted more than 2 million infected messages in…

A worm that recently hit the Internet is another reminder that the new generation of viruses and worms at hand is building in complexity and potential for damage. Frethem.E is the latest variant on a worm designed to take advantage of a security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.`s Internet Explorer. The worm, which only attacks Windows…

This destructive mass-mailing worm propagates via email by sending copies of itself to all contacts in an infected user`s Microsoft Outlook address book. It also propagates using mIRC, an Internet Relay Chat client. The email message it sends out has the following details: “England Win WorldCup with Beckham”. Full Story

A Northern Virginia city has implemented a messaging system that provides residents and employees with real-time electronic alerts during emergencies as well as offers reminders and notifications. Full Story

A select group of IT industry executives based in Silicon Valley this week issued a series of recommendations for improving airport security that could amount to a massive IT overhaul of the nation`s air transportation system. Full Story

Servers must be patched immediately, says Apache expert IT managers have only “a couple of days” before crackers produce an exploit capable of attacking over 50 million web servers left open by the latest Apache security flaw. Full Story

A BUFFER OVERFLOW in Macromedia`s JRun Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) server could allow an attacker to take complete control of a vulnerable server, according to a bulletin released Wednesday by security group Next Generation Security Software. Full Story

The latest case occurred Wednesday when America Online`s AOL Search and its technology partner Inktomi began displaying thousands of search results that linked to a Web site based in Russia. Web spamming, a term used to describe how sites trump legitimate search results with their own pages, has been going on since the birth of…

Terrorism in Algeria is conducted by a number of indigenous Islamic militant groups seeking to overthrow the current secular regime and establish an Islamic state. Algerian violence began following the ouster of President Bendjedid in 1992 and the follow-on regime`s voiding of the Islamic Salvation Front`s (FIS) victory in parliamentary elections of December 1991. Following…

Information Security Policies Made Easy by Charles C. Wood is a required bookshelf item for anyone involved in the development, maintenance or analysis of information security policies within a government or commercial organization. Full Story and More Reviews

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On June 13, demonstrations broke out in Arequipa in protest of the planned privatization of two state-owned electric utilities. These demonstrations became violent on June 15. There have been many injured, and at least one death. In response, the Government of Peru announced a State of Emergency in Arequipa on June 16, sending in military…

A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop in Jerusalem Wednesday, killing at least four people, Israeli police said. “Unfortunately we have four dead,” police spokesman Gil Kleiman told Reuters. Medics reported that at least 25 people were wounded in the blast, eight of them seriously. Full Story

Top European security chiefs said Wednesday a terror assault on Europe was almost inevitable, and the next attack on the West could be nuclear. David Veness, the head of Britain`s anti-terrorist police, said a nuclear or biological attack was “sadly the next logical step,” while the director of the European Union`s police agency, Europol, said…

The Senate yesterday approved legislation that would provide insurance companies with billions of dollars in government funding to help pay claims from future terrorist strikes, the latest attempt by Congress to deal with the financial fallout of the September attacks. Full Story

The new Department of Homeland Security would have access to raw intelligence about domestic terror threats collected by the FBI, the CIA and other agencies under legislation submitted by President Bush to Congress yesterday, but White House officials said Bush remains determined not to merge the FBI into the new agency. Full Story

Prosecutors responded for the first time yesterday to a motion filed by Zacarias Moussaoui while acting as his own attorney, saying the judge should not grant his request for immediate release. Full Story

The young hacker sounded frantic. He said he had been on the digital trail of some people he believed were involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and overheard them plotting a new one. This time the target would be “Brine,” an apparent code name that seemed to refer to Salt Lake City. Full Story

Leaders of the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency told a congressional panel Tuesday what they`ve learned about the Sept. 11 terror attacks — and about their own intelligence-gathering shortcomings. Full Story

Not a week goes by these days without the government warning of some “credible” threat of a terrorist attack. Monday`s warning came from California Director of Homeland Security George Vinson, who said, without much elaboration, that an attack this summer is “almost inevitable.” Full Story

President Bush`s proposed Department of Homeland Security may be housed outside the U.S. capital for security reasons, White House officials said on Thursday. Full Story

Richard Reid, the man accused of trying to blow up a transatlantic flight with bombs in his shoes, offered to plead guilty shortly after he was arrested, a federal agent testified on Tuesday. Full Story

The government and lawyers for U.S-born Taliban John Walker Lindh reached broad agreement on use of classified material at Lindh`s upcoming trial, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said Wednesday. Full Story

The FBI is devising a massive nationwide monitoring operation to protect July Fourth parades and festivities from possible terrorist attacks, officials said Wednesday. Full Story

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. would be required to turn over intelligence reports on terrorist threats to the proposed Department of Homeland Security, White House officials said today in submitting to Congress a bill that would reorganize much of official Washington. Full Story

A Muslim lawyer who is under consideration to be an adviser to terrorism suspect Zaccarias Moussaoui once was banned from a Texas judge`s courtroom for 10 years for being disruptive. Full Story