How bizarre...
You can Google colleagues, you can Google blind dates and you can Google kidnap victims: Google 'saved' Australian hostage - - An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google…
Disaster waiting to happen
Coming from the guy who wrote the Cyberthreat Assessment for the National Airspace System, it would not surprise me if this story is true. A major breakdown in Southern California's air traffic control system last week was partly due to a "design…
Al Qaeda's Geek
Congrats to the folks within the U.S. intelligence community. Turns out the cyber component of this arrest was the most significant. The unannounced capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan several weeks ago led the Central Intelligence…
Keep your finger off the trigger...we're only at Code Yellow
As the Democratic National Convention opens Monday, the city of Boston will be under an unprecedented $60 million security curtain. Federal agents have inspected manholes, welding them shut for safety. Mailboxes and most trash cans have been…
The New Face of Terrorism?
A lot has been written, broadcast and discussed regarding Annie Jacobsen's recent piece for WomensWallStreet.Com recounting her recent experience on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. Jacobsen expressed sincere concern regarding the activity of…
Failure of Imagination
Given I've briefed the term "Failure of Imagination" to thousands of people in over 100 presentations in the past couple of years, I thought it might be important to note the original source. Other things I heard that I agree with "America is…
New Book is Out
If you were drawn here basd on my cyber security and information terrorism material, you would probably enjoy my latest book. Copies are on their way to Amazon, so ORDERS should be shipped soon. Please feel free to let me know what you think!
Nine Hundred and eleven days later
As a terrorism expert, I was immediately confronted by the fact that under certain calculations, the bombings in Madrid last week were 911 days after September 11, 2001. Snopes.com provides on of the best explanations on the coincidence that I have…
Quote of the week
"This is not like the Gambino crime family, a Mafia family, where if you just arrest the leaders it goes out of business," said Peter Bergen, a CNN terrorism expert. "This is more like a mass movement, and you can arrest as many people as you want.…