Monday, March 22, 2010

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Urban Terrorism – Booby Traps, Threats Put Police On Alert



Posted: 22 Mar 2010 12:05 AM PDT


Hemet California, Describing it as “urban terrorism,” California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown joined with Riverside County officials in asking the public to help find those who tried at least three times to kill officers assigned to a Hemet-based gang task force.
“It is incredible and even unprecedented for police officers here to be subject to terrorist [...]

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Chinese Academics’ Paper on Cyberwar Sets Off Alarms in U.S.



Posted: 21 Mar 2010 11:49 AM PDT


An interesting article appears in the New York Times regarding the vulnerability of the US power grid and a paper written by a Chinese engineering student.
It came as a surprise this month to Wang Jianwei, a graduate engineering student in Liaoning, China, that he had been described as a potential cyber warrior before [...]

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Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely



Posted: 21 Mar 2010 11:33 AM PDT


Threat level reports more than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.
Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar [...]

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Spillover Violence from Mexico, Reality or Exaggeration



Posted: 21 Mar 2010 11:01 AM PDT


From his office window, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen has a clear view of Ciudad Juarez, El Paso’s blood-drenched sister city just across the Rio Grande in northern Mexico.
The carnage that has claimed 4,700 lives over the past two years has been confined primarily to Juarez. But Allen is taking no chances. He recently [...]

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Crude Bomb Found On Board Flight In S India



Posted: 21 Mar 2010 10:36 AM PDT


A security alarm was triggered Sunday when an explosive, suspected to be a crude bomb, was found on board a private airline flight in the southern state of Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram, a senior police official said.
“The crude bomb was inside a ball-shaped package found wrapped in a newspaper in the cargo compartment of Kingfisher flight [...]

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U.K. Brothers Convicted for Plotting Terrorist Attack



Posted: 21 Mar 2010 10:32 AM PDT


Two brothers who called themselves “The Blackburn Resistance” and filmed Al Qaeda-style propaganda in a park were convicted of terrorist offenses in an English court Friday.Abbas Iqbal, 24, gathered a stockpile of weapons at the family home in Blackburn in west central England, while his brother, Ilyas, 23, studied and compiled information on guerrilla warfare.
Abbas [...]

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