Introduction: What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is the world’s first digitally traded open source currency. The use of Bitcoins have grown slowly and steadily since the program was first released in early …
Hidden Dragon, Crouching Lion: How China’s Advance in Africa is Underestimated and Africa’s Potential Underappreciated
"The explosive growth of China’s economic interests in Africa—bilateral trade rocketed from $1 billion in 1990 to $150 billion in 2011—may be the most important trend in the continent’s foreign …
Questioning the Offense-Defense Balance in Cyberspace
Analysts, policymakers, and defenders often paint a bleak picture of the cybersecurity landscape. The Internet was built for resiliency, convenience, and openness, not security, and barriers to entry …
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Iran: Detained Iranian-American Citizens Reflect Power Struggle
The Iranian government’s detainment of dual Iranian-American citizens has brought international condemnation and calls by world leaders for their release. Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbaksh – a …
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Bali bomber ‘heads new group’
The Indonesian investigation into the second Bali terrorist attack, on October 1, 2005 , has yielded some startling discoveries. Since the remains of the three suicide bombers were easily …
FBI publishes 2005 computer crime survey
The FBI?s 2005 survey of computer crime highlights several important themes. First, and most importantly, the survey illustrates the monetization of hacking. Past perception held that the average …
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Terminating a systems administrator
When it's time for an IT employee to go, eliminate all the ways that person can access your network. Perhaps one of the most challenging situations in an IT organization is to let a systems …