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Terrorism list updated by U.S.
October 11, 1999 | adminMore detail on the U.S. State Departments newly up-dated list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The organization headed by Osama bin Laden is added to the list. AP News, CNN
The Boom in bioterror funds
October 11, 1999 | adminAn article by US News and World Report concerning the billions of dollars flowing into the response to bioterrorism. The article suggests that the threat analysis justifying the funding may not be as credible as prior thought. US News
NY Times Story – Gaps in Biological Defenses
October 11, 1999 | adminThe NY Times has a story on the outbreak of West Nile virus in New York City. On an interesting note, Reuters reported over the weekend that the FBI was investigating the outbreak as a potential attempt at bioterrorism. NY Times Story
CIP Hearing Testimony Available
October 8, 1999 | adminThe testimony from the hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information on “Critical Information Infrastructure Protection: the Threat is Real” is now available. Read the testimony
Critical Infrastructure Protection Funding in Budget Ammendment
October 8, 1999 | adminGovExec.com is reporting that there is a budget item for Critical Infrastructure Protection and computer security in a $611 million mid-year fiscal 2000 budget ammendment. The total designated for CIP and security enhancements is $39 million with $8.4 million earmarked for the federal intrusion detection initiative known at FIDNET. Full Story
Three Bomb Blasts Hit Corsican Official Buildings
October 8, 1999 | adminThe Agence France Presse is reporting that three bombs have exploded at two Corsican Official buildings. The bombs are believed to be the work of hardline separatists.Full Story
Sixth Defendant Arrested In U.S. Embassy Bombings
October 8, 1999 | adminReuters is reporting that authorities have taken a sixth defendant into custody for involvement in the bombings against U.S. embassies in Africa. Further details regarding the arrest should be made available by authorities later this afternoon. Full Story
Oklahoma City Bombing Figure Rejailed For 12 Years
October 8, 1999 | adminThe man convicted of failing to warn police about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people lost his bid Friday to reduce his original 12-year sentence, CBS radio reported. Fortier has spent four years in jail, convicted of involuntary manslaughter for failing to warn authorities that his friend Timothy
McVeigh was plotting to blow up the Alfred P Murrah federal building in April 1995. Full Story
NIPC Cyber Threat Assessment
October 8, 1999 | adminNIPC Director Mike Vatis provides the following Threat Assessment in which he states: Terrorists are known to use information technology and the Internet to formulate plans, raise funds, spread propaganda, and to communicate securely. For example, convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, stored detailed plans to destroy United States airliners on encrypted files on his laptop computer. Moreover, some groups have already used cyber attacks to inflict damage on their enemies' information systems. For example, a group calling itself the Internet Black Tigers conducted a successful “denial of service” attack on servers of Sri Lankan government embassies. Italian sympathizers of the Mexican Zapatista rebels attacked web pages of Mexican financial institutions. And a Canadian government report indicates that the Irish Republican Army has considered the use of information operations against British interests. We are also concerned that Aum Shinrikyo, which launched the deadly Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway system, could use its growing expertise in computer manufacturing and Internet technology to develop “cyber terrorism” weapons for use against Japanese and U.S. interests. Thus while we have yet to see a significant instance of “cyber terrorism” with widespread disruption of critical infrastructures, all of these facts portend the use of cyber attacks by terrorists to cause pain to targeted governments or civilian populations by disrupting critical systems.
Albright Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
October 8, 1999 | adminA copy of the letter from the Secretary of State requesting that the following list of terrorist organizations be published in the Federal Register.