Dark Web, a giant, searchable database at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an attempt to uncover, cross-reference, catalogue and analyze all online terrorist-generated content on the at least 7000 to 8000 terrorist sites.
Feature length article on how al Qaeda has become the "first guerrilla movement in history to migrate from physical space to cyberspace. With laptops and DVDs, in secret hideouts and at neighborhood Internet cafes, young code-writing jihadists have sought to replicate the training, communication, planning and preaching facilities they lost in Afghanistan with countless new locations on the Internet."
Russian and US experts meet this month to assess terror tactics, from hacking into systems to seizing a weapon.
Timothy Thomas lists 18 ways in which terrorists can use internet technologies to further their goals and grow their organization. He concludes that this 'cyberplanning' is "as important a concept as cyberterrorism, and perhaps even more so."
Airliners could be brought down by terrorists using modified versions of almost any personal electronic equipment, a security expert has warned. He says passengers should be barred from carrying any electronic gadgets onto aircraft until planes are able to detect them.
The author argues that the recent string of intelligence successes against al Qaeda is due to our superior 'hacking' capabilities.
The computers that control the electric power system around the nation have been probed from the Middle East, and terrorists may have inspected the physical equipment, said experts at a conference on the security of the electric system.
The stock brokerage community is largely unprepared to manage the results of a disaster with a scope as great as the 11 September attacks. The community's organization and geographic concentration make it vulnerable and constrain the self-defensive actions needed to keep it functioning after another catastrophe. What stock brokerage lacks is a method to keep the system operating no matter what.
Purdue University Prof. Eugene Spafford warns that policymakers are paying insufficient attention to the threat of cyberterrorism.
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt present a five point plan to re-organize 21st century armies for "netwar" against "bands of swarming 14th century terrorists."