Information Security Management Handbook by Micki Krause and Harold F. Tipton (Editors). Since 1993, the Information Security Management Handbook has served not only as an everyday reference for information security practitioners but also as an important document for use by practitioners to conduct the intense review necessary to prepare for the Certified Information System Security…

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The FBI has issued a fresh warning that terrorists may be interested in using small planes to carry out suicide attacks. Full Story

The al Qaeda terrorist network is trying to establish a safe haven in Pakistan, and the United States will deal with it when the time is right, the U.S. Army`s second-in-command said today. Full Story

An analysis of e-mail, phone calls and voice mail messages from the World Trade Center after the twin towers were attacked on Sept. 11 shows that most of those who died were on the upper floors of the towers, The New York Times reported Sunday. Full Story

Attorneys for 11 Kuwaiti men held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have released letters and documents to support their claim that at least some of them were innocent aid workers swept up in mass arrests that followed the U.S. attack in Afghanistan. Full Story

Terror struck Justine McCoy where she works when American Airlines Flight 77 exploded into the side of the Pentagon on Sept. 11. This week, it found her again, in the place where she is supposed to feel safest — her home. Full Story

An attempt to honour a dead baseball fan`s last wish went horribly wrong on Friday, forcing the evacuation of Safeco Field, the home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, amid fears of a bio-terror attack. Full Story

Responding to calls for an aggressive congressional inquiry into the government`s actions before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the probe`s two leaders announced yesterday that they will begin hearings early next month. Full Story

The FBI is moving forward with a major reorganization amid criticism the agency missed clues that would have helped uncover the Sept. 11 plot, congressional Republicans said Sunday. Full Story

When nuclear regulators put U.S. atomic reactors on high alert after the Sept. 11 attacks, they also froze training drills for the plant`s security forces, a move critics warn weakens their defense. Full Story

Iraq said Monday its air defenses had forced down an unmanned reconnaissance plane on a mission over northern Iraq to land. Full Story

Leading reformers in Iran`s parliament vowed Monday to continue to explore ways of improving ties with the United States despite a judiciary ban. Full Story

An anti-abortion militant suspected of murdering a doctor has given up fighting his extradition order and will return to the United States to try and clear his name by standing trial, his lawyer said Monday. Full Story

Kurds in northern Iraq have created a quasi-democratic, somewhat prosperous life under the protection of U.S. jets patrolling a no-fly zone and keeping Saddam Hussein`s tanks away. Full Story

A bomb exploded Monday at a mall in the center of Petach Tikvah, east of Tel Aviv, killing three people including a suicide bomber, a police commander said. Full Story

Ominously, vaguely, federal officials are again warning Americans to be on alert for some sort of terrorist attack. Will corporate America be ready? Full Story

For more than 20 years, the Pakistani government has used Islamic radicals as an instrument of both domestic and foreign policy. Now, many Pakistani security experts doubt that the government has the will or the means to neutralize what has become a huge network of violence. Full Story

Bitter after three years of fruitless peace talks, voters gave a resounding victory today to a hard-right candidate for president who promises a sharp buildup in the armed forces to battle two rebel groups that have been waging war for 38 years. Full Story

The security crackdown meant to keep terrorist hijackers out of American flight schools has forced thousands of foreign students to train overseas, weakening the country`s global dominance in aviation training, officials in the industry say. Full Story

It`s not surprising that many officials in Washington are talking about convening an independent panel to investigate the federal government`s actions before the Sept. 11 attacks. Full Story

Given a chance to tell the people who will oversee the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan what they want to see there, hundreds of New Yorkers and others responded on Thursday with a surprising answer: rebuild the twin towers. Full Story

Gilles Kepel, a French academic, argues that the militant Islamic theocracy movement has run its course. Full Story

German officials have been negotiating with the Turkish government to extradite a Turk who is serving a four-year sentence in Germany for operating a terrorist organization and calling for the murder of a rival, the German interior minister said today. Full Story

Experts on terrorism and proliferation agree on one thing: Sooner or later, an attack will happen here. When and how is what robs them of sleep. Full Story

The political dispute over whether to have an independent commission investigate intelligence and law enforcement lapses before Sept. 11 represents a reversal of normal form. Full Story

Conventional wisdom has it that America`s openness is its greatest weakness in preventing and tracking terrorist attacks. But there is an alternative view – one that sees the same openness as a source of some protection alongside the vulnerability. Full Story

A San Diego stock adviser who is accused of bribing an F.B.I. agent to give him confidential government information may have had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal prosecutor said yesterday. But a judge disregarded that contention and the adviser`s lawyer called the allegation ludicrous. Full Story

A senior F.B.I. agent in Minneapolis has accused a supervisor at the agency`s Washington headquarters of altering a report in a way that made it impossible for investigators to obtain crucial evidence in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, before the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, government officials said…

Despite this week`s ominous warnings from the Bush administration about the threat of additional terrorist attacks, the nation`s new coterie of state homeland security czars said they took no action because the alerts were too vague and their overburdened agencies already stand at heightened readiness. Full Story

In response to a warning of a potential terrorist attack on the Statue of Liberty, the National Park Service activated a face recognition surveillance system yesterday that takes pictures of visitors and compares them with a database of terror suspects. Full Story

The Department of State warns Americans to defer travel to India, particularly all border areas between India and Pakistan including the Indian states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Punjab, and to the state of Jammu & Kashmir. The Indian Government has closed virtually all land and air links with Pakistan, ending travel between the two countries.…

Tensions between India and Pakistan have risen to serious levels, and the risk of intensified military hostilities cannot be ruled out. Virtually all land and air links with India are closed. Military movements continue along both the Line of Control in Kashmir and the border between India and Pakistan. Artillery firing along the Line of…

This Public Announcement is being issued to inform the American public that the U.S. Department of State and the American Embassies and Consulates in Japan and Korea stand ready to provide consular assistance and protection to U.S. citizens traveling to Japan and Korea for the 2002 World Cup. Full Story

Eleven soldiers were killed in the explosion of land mines placed by leftist rebels in northern Colombia, a police commander announced on Friday. Full Story

High-level consultations are under way in Nepal to defuse a political crisis over Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba`s attempts to extend the state of emergency to fight Maoists rebels. A leading figure in the ruling Nepali Congress party, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, has returned to Kathmandu from London to oversee reconciliation efforts between Mr Deuba and…

Saying Pakistan did not want war but was ready for it if necessary, Gen. Pervez Musharraf hailed as `auspicious` Saturday?s successful test-firing of a medium-range missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons deep into the territory of nuclear-armed rival India. Full Story

A United Nations employee in the Somali capital Mogadishu has been freed after being kidnapped nearly four weeks ago. Mohamed Ali Abukar – a Somali working for the UN Development Programme – was said to be tired but unharmed. Full Story

Sri Lanka`s peace process took a step forward with the lifting of a ban on the supply of various items to rebel zones but a parliamentary group said on Saturday key points of the ceasefire had not been fully implemented. The government and minority Tamil guerrillas agreed to a Norwegian-brokered ceasefire in February in an…

Venezuela said it won`t object if Colombia grants asylum to the figurehead of a short-lived coup who escaped house arrest and fled to the Colombian ambassador`s residence. Full Story

The Federal Aviation Administration warned the nation`s airports and airlines in late 1998 about a possible terrorist hijacking “at a metropolitan airport in the Eastern United States” and urged a “high degree of vigilance” against threats to US civil aviation from Osama bin Laden`s terrorist network, according to classified security bulletins obtained by the Globe.…

The International Monetary Fund said Friday that follow-up tests determined that no anthrax spores were present on mail it received. Full Story

Chief information officers from state governments have been asked to form a small working group to help the federal government on technology-related homeland security matters, including the creation of a national plan. Full Story

The FBI has ordered an internet provider to stop hosting a video showing US journalist Daniel Pearl being murdered. Agents told the company Pro Hosters based in Virginia to delete the video which a customer had posted on a web site. a href=http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_594707.html> Full Story

Due to a domain registration snafu, two Internet addresses used by the U.S. Navy for recruiting new sailors have recently been commandeered by other sites, including a pornography site. Full Story

Agencies and vendors should expect to see some big opportunities for increasing government security as the General Services Administration readies several new solutions and solicitations this year. Full Story

The United States and five of its NATO allies soon will have computer terminals in their respective capitals dedicated solely to military planning for coalition operations. 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…

America`s Achilles` Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack examines the potential NBC terrorism threat faced by the united States. The book presents the threat without hype, and provides policy recommendations. U.S. Senator Richarc Lugar said of the book, “I know of no more incisive, detailed assessment of the growing threat of mass…

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Concerned that Washington headquarters was hindering their pre-Sept. 11 probe of terrorism defendant Zacarias Moussaoui, FBI agents in Minnesota took the radical step of contacting the CIA for help, an FBI whistleblower says. Full Story

The FBI agent who suggested last July that the bureau bear down on suspicious Arab pilots-in-training is also at the center of allegations that agents here mishandled a Chinese spy case and an undercover attempt to collect information about Palestinian terrorist organizations abroad, according to court papers and interviews. Full Story

Two days before he boarded a flight in Paris armed with powerful explosive devices hidden in his shoes, Richard C. Reid told his mother that his alleged attempt to blow up the airliner was “part of the ongoing war between Islam and disbelief, and as such a duty upon me as a Muslim,” government lawyers…

Afghan authorities have arrested three Taliban supporters in a southern border town for distributing anti-government leaflets and pictures of the fugitive Osama bin Laden, a local official said on Friday. Full Story

Pope John Paul cleared Bulgaria on Friday of any link to a 1981 attempt to assassinate him, rejecting years of speculation the Balkan state was tied to Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in a communist conspiracy. Full Story

The United States has asked Pakistan to end its support of groups that have infiltrated into the Indian side of Kashmir to avoid a more serious military conflict. “We understand India`s frustrations and anger over continued terrorist actions, but would reiterate that rather than being the solution, military action in this crisis would create even…

The House approved $29 billion early Friday for the fight against terrorism overseas and at home as the two parties grappled in a bitter election-year spat over war and the growing national debt. Full Story

The Transportation Department has warned transit and other railroad systems about possible terrorist attacks, a department official said Friday. Spokesman Chet Lunner said the information that triggered the alert cited “unconfirmed, non-specific reports that indicated attacks” that were being considered against subway trains. Full Story

The commissioners of the New York City Police and Fire Departments said yesterday that for the first time they would exchange liaison officers and carry out specialized training together. The moves, they said, are intended to improve communications between the two agencies, but may also ease the tensions that have long divided some of their…

A suspected Palestinian militant tried to ram a car full of explosives into a Tel Aviv nightclub crowded with teenagers early today but was shot and killed by an Israeli security guard. Full Story