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Inexpensive and powerfully destructive weapons are available to more potential enemies than ever before. The Center is a nonprofit research and educational group based in Washington, D.C.
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The Center for the Study of Technology and Society National Security Sanctuary on sovereign island (Wired 4 Jun 00) Some Sensible Options for U.S. Missile Defense (Moscow Times, 3 Jun 00) Air Force Examines New Approach to Hackers (International Defense Review, 1 Jun 00) UK Web...US national center for counter-terrorism technology research, development and assessment at Dartmouth College. Funded by the U.S. Justice Department.
http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/
Cybercrimes committed against: persons, property, government. Details on what to do and how to report it. University of Dayton School of Law.
http://www.cybercrimes.net/
Discusses cyber-terrorism, its impact on computing community and the rest of society, countermeasures, and ethical issues. Includes links to case studies, statistics, and websites on this topic.
http://www-cs.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/stdntppr/index.htm
Jointly produced by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and Carnegie-Mellon CERT (formerly Computer Emergency Response Team), Infosec Outlook is a prime source for information on technical, business and risk management, and policy issues related to global information security.
http://www.cert.org/infosec-outlook/
A white paper on the need for coordinated technical response toward information crime and terrorism.
http://www.cert.org/reports/stanford_whitepaper-V6.pdf
An introduction to cyber terrorism: "The crime of "cracking" can escalate into terrorism when an individual "cracks" into a government or military maintained website."
http://www.cybercrimes.net/Terrorism/terrorism.html
Position Papers on Countering Cyber-Terrorism presented at USC Information Sciences Institute in June 1999
http://www.isi.edu/gost/cctws/positions.html
November 1998 --Director, National Security Agency
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/1198/ijpe/pj48min.htm
Feb 18, 2000 BBC coverage of US terrorism experts, who claim that terrorists are not just exploring weapons of mass destruction but also weapons of mass disruption. Media coverage of denial of service attacks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/t...cials/washington_2000/648429.stm
NISCC is setup by the UK government to co-ordinate and develop existing work within Government and private sector to defend against electronic attacks.
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/
London-based fundamentalist Islamic cleric with ties to Osama bin Laden talks of plans to use the Internet the target the U.S., Israeli and U.K. economies.
http://www.computerworld.com/sec...rity/story/0,10801,76000,00.html