Report: Nuclear Terror Threat Real
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The threat of terrorists stealing a nuclear device remains high in many parts of the world, a private study concluded Wednesday
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President Bush and John Kerry agree that the most horrifying threat facing the country is a nuclear weapon in terrorist hands, each man claiming to be best able to prevent it from happening. But securing bomb-grade material in Russia and at labs elsewhere will be a daunting task no matter who is in the White House.
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WASHINGTON -- The Iraq war gave birth to a new generation of Islamic radicals and the terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a US intelligence report cited yesterday in The New York Times .
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The threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than any time since the Sept. 11 attacks, a British Sunday newspaper reported, citing a leaked intelligence document.
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The threat of a terrorist attack on the United States still exists, but counterterrorism officials say there is a conspicuous lack of intelligence "chatter" being picked up.
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Despite progress on security, tons of nuclear material are &quot;dangerously vulnerable&quot; to theft by terrorists across the globe, a private group contends.
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Critics question the effectiveness of US intelligence operations, and whether the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated.
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IBM&#39;s campus in Boulder has begun issuing a monthly report on threats to computer networks that has similarities to Uncle Sam&#39;s system for warning citizens about the danger of terrorist attacks.
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In Terrorism and Security daily update: Europeans offer nuclear technology if Tehran ends uranium enrichment efforts.
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A new government report says there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government's terrorist "watch list," raising concerns the list may be becoming too large.
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Military action against Iran with the goal of shutting down its nuclear programme would be &quot;highly dangerous&quot; and &quot;counter-productive,&quot; according to an independent British report.
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(InfoWorld) - A Russian computer security expert predicts that terrorists could seek to target the country's critical infrastructure through electronic warfare, a strategy that could raise the stakes in how Russia handles computer crime. While terrorists aren't believed to currently have the know-how to disrupt critical infrastructure, it would be "very dangerous" if they start learning, said Valery Vasenin, head of the Computer Security Department at the Institute for Information Security Problems (IISP) at Moscow State University. "I think the phenomenon of terrorism will go in this direction," Vasenin said in an interview at his office. "This is probably the most important problem for the coming years." Russia's energy grid is a possible target, which could cause widespread blackouts. The air transportation or fuel distribution systems are other possible targets, Vasenin said. Russia has experienced chilling episodes of terrorism. In September 2004, 331 people, more than half of whom were children, were killed when Chechen separatists stormed a school in Beslan. In October 2002, Chechen rebels took 850 people hostage in a Moscow theater; 117 died after Russian forces used a poisonous gas before entering the premises. No major cyberterrorism incident in Russia has been recorded. However, the country's infrastructure is becoming more networked and less isolated than before, which could make it more vulnerable to cyberattacks, Vasenin said. "Russia, at the moment, is average in terms of computer security, like the rest of the world," Vasenin said. In the 1990s, the Internet in Russia was still viewed as something of a domain for academics, Vasenin said. But the rapid change of technology and emergence of threats has led to greater attention to security issues, he said. Moscow State University's IISP was established in 2004 to study network security, the psychology of human behavior and the Internet, along with computer forensics and judicial issues. Russia lacks laws that clearly define computer crime, he said, making it difficult for Internal Affairs Ministry agents to investigate and bring cases. IISP is studying other countries' computer crime laws and formulating recommendations. "They [the Internal Affairs Ministry] are somewhat unarmed," Vasenin said. "We understand we [Russia] have these problems related to legislation, just as there are worldwide problems." Through June, Russia recorded 8,400 computer-related crimes, according to figures released by the Internal Affairs Ministry in October. Forty-three percent of the cases were related to online auction fraud, with the remainder comprising information theft, unauthorized access, child pornography violations and others, the ministry said. Boris Miroshnikov, who heads the cybercrime department in Russia's Internal Affairs Ministry, has called for more trained experts to handle criminal cases that often cross international borders. Miroshnikov's comments at a cybersecurity conference were published earlier this year by Moscow State University. "Do we have today a school of experts in the field of cybercrimes?" Miroshnikov told conference participants. "Unfortunately, I do not think so." (Pavel Kupriyanov of Computerworld Russia contributed to this report.) Â
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Washington DC, Dec. 15 - The terrorism preparedness the public has seen consists of mock disasters around the country testing reaction to chemical or biological attack.
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The threat of biological weapons is real and needs to be tackled now, medical experts warn.
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Because of widespread availability of raw materials for chemical terrorism, many experts believe the odds for a chemical attack are relatively high, compared with biological or nuclear terrorism.
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A new report fueled jitters of a fresh Al Qaeda attack on America. But the document also shows how little intelligence officials really know about the state of terrorist threats.
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Top U.S. officials were aware some  pre-war evidence cited to make the case against Iraq's Saddam  Hussein was questionable but U.S. intelligence officials  nonetheless deemed the threat of his developing nuclear weapons  credible, top White House aides said on Sunday.