Oil pipelines in Nigeria attacked, company says
Three attacks were made on Royal Dutch Shell oil facilities in Nigeria on Sunday, according to a company spokesman who said details were not immediately available. (CNN)
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Achieving Cyber Deterrence
Many cyber security experts and national security policy makers assume that it is impossible to achieve a comprehensive cyber deterrence strategy. Deterrence involves convincing an adversary not to initiate a particular action or actions due to the credible prospect that he will not succeed in achieving his objectives and/or he will be subjected to
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Prison Gangs and Organized Crime
The November 2008-April 2009 federal trial of six members of the Barrio Azteca prison gang was indeed one of revelations: Former gang members, policemen
Non State Authoritarian Movements: The Mentoring Challenge
“I’m more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.” David Koresh Non state authoritarian movements answer to no one and are unfortunately
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Social Networks Around the World
Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map of the world, showing
North Korea Secrets Uncovered In Google Earth by Amateur Spies
This Google Earth project offers an extensive mapping of North Korea’s economic, cultural, political, and military infrastructures. Through the topic
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Emergency communications in 140 characters or less
The Public Service of New Hampshire used Twitter to keep customers informed during a treacherous winter storm In the midst of a Dec. 11 ice storm unprecedented
Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp
One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows
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Armed group frees 53 inmates in Mexico
Mexican authorities are searching for more than 50 inmates and a group of 20 armed men who freed them from a prison in central Mexico early Saturday. (
NIC Publishes New Paper On Global Health
Yesterday, they published an excellent paper on the Strategic Implications of Global Health, complete with some truly outstanding charts and graphics.
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Benefits of information sharing outweigh vulnerabilities
Nowhere is getting the right information at the right time more critical than in the area of national security — defense, intelligence, diplomacy and so on. And people working in the government know
Philippines says seizes rebel bases; kills 100
Fighting across oil and gas-rich marshlands in the southern Philippines has escalated with members of the country’s largest Muslim rebel group reinforcing rogue guerrillas, an army field commander
ETA claims responsibility for five attacks
The armed Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility for five attacks committed since the start of the year, including one aimed at killing police officers. In a statement published in the Basque
Swine flu ‘not stoppable,’ World Health Organization says
The World Health Organization raised the swine flu alert Thursday to its highest level, saying the H1N1 virus has spread to enough countries to be considered a global pandemic. (CNN)
‘Elaborate’ drug tunnel found along Mexico border
Authorities have found a massive underground drug smuggling tunnel snaking through the U.S.-Mexican border, and law officers are marveling over its sophistication. “This is one of the most elaborate
Reporters get 12-year terms in N. Korea
Two U.S. journalists who were detained in North Korea while covering the plight of defectors living along the China-North Korea border have been sentenced to 12 years in labor prisons, the country’s
Shootout kills 16 gunmen, 2 soldiers in Acapulco
It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Outlaws holed up in a hillside mansion fought heavily armed Mexican soldiers with a rain of gunfire and grenades
Next flu could strain health care system
The Trust for America’s Health, the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation also listed 10 lessons from the H1N1 outbreak and
Al Qaeda eyes bio attack from Mexico
U.S. counterterrorism officials have authenticated a video by an al Qaeda recruiter threatening to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border, the latest sign