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New Terrorism: Five days in Manhattan

Two events centered on New York City separated by five days demonstrated the end of one phase of terrorism and the pending arrival of the next. The failed car-bombing in Times square and the dizzying stock market crash less than a week later mark the book ends of terrorist eras.

End of an era for terrorism

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Filed under: Cyber Security — Interrain @ May 13, 2010, 1:31 am

Open Versus Closed Systems

“The principal characteristic of twenty-first-century international relations is turning out to be nonpolarity: a world dominated not by one or two or even several states but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exercising various kinds of power. This represents a tectonic shift from the past.”
“Today’s world differs in a fundamental way from one [...]

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Filed under: Cyber Security — Interrain @ February 19, 2010, 5:48 pm

Information War – this time its personal

The ongoing phishing attacks aimed at popular webmail applications are (amongst other things) a massive individualized reputation attack against the holders of those accounts. Friends, customers and contacts all read in bemusement as they receive emails requesting funds from previously trusted cohorts via the email addresses they have used to communicate with them for many [...]

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Filed under: Cyber Security — Interrain @ October 9, 2009, 5:09 pm

Hack-Jet: Losing a commercial airliner in a networked world

When there is a catastrophic loss of an aircraft in any circumstances, there are inevitably a host of questions raised about the safety and security of the aviation operation. The loss of Air France flight 447 off the coast of Brazil with little evidence upon which to work inevitably raises the level of speculation surrounding [...]

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Filed under: Air Security, Cyber Security — Interrain @ August 4, 2009, 11:35 pm