News
Archive May 2004
[05-31-04]
Saudi Arabia: Oil-Sector Experts Try To Gauge Impact Of Terror Attack
[05-31-04] Massive Manhunt Underway in
Saudi Arabia
[05-31-04] EU Complains of US Aviation
Proposal
[05-31-04] Image Problems Continue to Hamper
US Forces in Iraq
[05-31-04] Deadlock Continues Over Choice
for Interim Iraqi President
[05-31-04]
Chinese Information
Operations Capabilities 2004
[05-30-04] Saudi Officials Say Khobar Hostages
Freed
[05-30-04] Iraqi War Did Not Increase Terrorism
Threat, says British PM
[05-30-04] US Senator Blames Saudi Government
for Attack on Foreigners
[05-30-04] New York Times Criticized for
'Flawed Journalism' About Iraqi Weapons
[05-30-04] U.S. Refocusing Military Strategy
for War on Terror, Rumsfeld Says
[05-29-04]
Department of Defense Releases FY04 Report to Congress on PRC Military
Power
[05-28-04]
Information Security: Information System Controls at the Federal
Deposit Insurance
Corporation. GAO-04-630
[05-27-04] Security Attacks On IT Systems
More Than Double, According to Respondents of Deloitte & Touche LLP's
Global Financial Services Survey
[05-27-04]
Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses. GAO-04-548,
May 4 [1.5
MB]
[05-27-04] Musharraf Points to al-Qaida
and Military in Assassination Attempt
[05-27-04] New WWII Memorial to be Dedicated
Saturday in Washington DC
[05-27-04] UK Muslim Cleric Faces Extradition
to US on 11 Terror Charges
[05-27-04] Britain Announces More Troops
for Iraq
[05-26-04] U.S. Wants to Intensify Global
Nuclear Security Efforts
[05-26-04] US Unveils Plan to Keep Terrorists
from Getting Nuclear Materials
[05-26-04] Interpol Warns of New Terrorist
Tactics to Finance Terrorism
[05-26-04] Al-Qaeda Expected to Strike
U.S. Soon, Attorney General Says
[05-26-04] Bush Administration Warns Threat
of Major Terrorist Attacks Rising
[05-26-04] Ashcroft: 'Credible Evidence'
Shows al-Qaida Planning Attack in US
[05-26-04]
DOD Personnel Clearances: Additional Steps Can Be Taken to Reduce
Backlogs and Delays in Granting Security Clearances to Industry Personnel.
GAO-04-632 [1.1
MB]
[05-25-04] Homeland Security Fact Sheet:
A Better Prepared America: A Year in Review
[05-25-04] Phishing attacks continue to
increase
[05-25-04] Nuclear Security at the Summer
2004 Olympic Games
[05-25-04] Beyond
Fear Book Review
[05-25-04] National Military Strategy of
the United States of America 2004 Keypoints
[05-25-04]
Defense Acquisitions: Knowledge of Software Suppliers Needed to Manage
Risks.
GAO-04-678
[05-24-04] US, Britain Present Draft UN Resolution
on Iraqi Sovereignty
[05-24-04]
Homeland Security: DHS Needs a Strategy to Use DOE's Laboratories
for Research on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Detection and Response
Technologies. GAO-04-653
[05-23-04] US, Australia Warn of Increased
Terror Risk in Indonesia
[05-21-04]
Information Technology: Homeland Security Should Better Balance Need
for System Integration Strategy with Spending for New and Enhanced
Systems. GAO-04-509
[05-21-04] Television Primary Information
Source for Most 2004 Voters
[05-20-04]
CAN-SPAM Act Hearing
[05-20-04] New Photos Show US Soldiers
Posing With Dead Iraqi Prisoner
[05-20-04] U.S. Disease Agency Revises
Health Travel Advisory System
[05-20-04] Human Smuggling a National Security
Risk, U.S. Official Says
[05-20-04] China's Latest SARS Outbreak
Has Ended, U.N. Health Agency Says
[05-20-04] Catching the phishers: Australian
Government/banking taskforce targets online fraudsters
[05-19-04] 9/11 Commission Wraps Up New
York Testimony
[05-19-04] Security Breach Shuts Down
British Prime Minister's Question Time in Parliament
[05-19-04] Statement by Secretary Tom Ridge
before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States
[05-19-04] Former New York Mayor Testifies
Before September 11 Panel
[05-19-04] US Generals to Appear on Capitol
Hill
[05-19-04] Army Specialist Sentenced to
1 Year in Prison for Iraqi Prisoner Abuse
[05-19-04]
Hearing on The Use Of Biometrics To Improve Aviation Security
[05-18-04] Man sentenced in Houston for
Internet "phishing" to get personal info from AOL and Paypal
customers
[05-18-04] US Border Patrol Steps up Efforts
to Police Mexican Border
[05-18-04] 9/11 Commission Reviews Events
Of Catastrophe
[05-18-04]
Terrorism Insurance: Effects of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act
of 2002, by Richard J. Hillman, director, financial markets and community
investment, before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs. GAO-04-806T
[05-18-04] US Military Describes Steps
to Improve Conditions in Abu Ghraib Prison
[05-18-04] The Sarin-Laced Shell: Major
Discovery Or A Curious Relic?
[05-17-04]
DOD Business Systems Modernization: Limited Progress in Development
of Business Enterprise Architecture and Oversight of Information
Technology Investments.
GAO-04-731R
[05-17-04] 9/11 Hearings will Bring Back
Painful Memories for Victims' Families
[05-17-04] China Warns Taiwan Against Any
Move Toward Independence
[05-17-04] Some US Soldiers in S. Korea
to be Redeployed
[05-17-04] Experts: Iraqis May View Assassination
as Punishment for Collaborators
[05-17-04] Iraqi Officials Condemn Killing
of Governing Council Chairman
[05-15-04]
Foreign Military Sales: Improved Army Controls Could Prevent Unauthorized
Shipments of Classified Spare Parts and Items Containing Military
Technology to Foreign
Countries. GAO-04-327
[05-15-04] US Energy Secretary to Visit
IAEA Headquarters
[05-15-04] Crypto-Gram Newsletter: Warrants,
counterterrorism in airports, bypassing the USPS, national security
consumers
[05-15-04] US National Security Advisor Meets
With Russian Officials
[05-14-04] National Criminal Intelligence
Sharing Plan announced
[05-14-04] The Military
Aircraft Accident Summary reporting the investigation of the fatal
loss of a RAF Tornado to a Patriot missile on 22 March 2003, UK MoD © Crown
Copyright 2004
[05-14-04] Transformation Requires Business,
Military Cultural Change
[05-14-04]
Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Needs to Continue to Collect
and Provide Information on Tests and on Potentially Exposed Personnel.
GAO-04-410 [1.5 MB]
[05-14-04] Athens Mayor Promotes Olympics,
Attempts to Allay Security Concerns
[05-14-04] Top US Law Enforcement Official
Vows Justice for US Man Beheaded in Iraq
[05-14-04] Close U.S.-Iraqi Military Relationship
Expected After June 30
[05-13-04] USJFCOM: New system to improve
the way military services perform maintenance
[05-13-04] Bush Administration Asks Congress
for $25 Billion for Iraq Operations
[05-13-04] Photos of UK Soldier Abusing
Iraqi Prisoners Are Fake, Official Says
[05-13-04] Report: CIA Agents Concerned
About Rough Interrogations
[05-13-04] Armitage Stresses Need for Civil-Military
Collaboration
[05-13-04] Officials Explain Plans for
Sovereignty Transfer in Iraq
[05-13-04]
Hearing on How to Best Prepare for Acts of Terror: National Preparedness
and
First Responder Funding
[05-13-04] DHS launches National Visual
Analytics Center
[05-13-04]
Military Operations: DOD's Fiscal Year 2003 Funding and Obligations
in Support
of the Global War on Terrorism. GAO-04-668
[05-13-04] Federal Government Tests Continuity
of Operations Plans
[05-12-04] G8: International co-operation
strengthened in the fight against terrorism
[05-12-04] Former CIA Directors Discuss
Possible Agency Reforms
[05-12-04] Advisory Number: AV04-023 Vulnerability
in IEEE 802.11
[05-12-04] Transforming for New Military
Demands
[05-12-04]
Information Operations in Iraq by Major Norman Emery, U.S. Army,
Military Review
May-June 2004
[05-12-04] Elections:
Electronic Voting Offers Opportunities and Presents Challenges, by
Randolph C. Hite, director, information systems, before the Subcommittee
on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and
the Census, House Committee on Government
Reform. GAO-04-766T
[05-12-04] International Terrorism and
Intelligence 2004 Conference
[05-12-04] US Officials Investigate Beheading
of American Contractor
[05-12-04] Senators Harshly Criticize Rumsfeld
Over US Conduct in Iraq
[05-12-04] Blair: Allegations of Prisoner
Abuse in Iraq Damaged Coalition's Cause
[05-11-04] G8
products and initiatives: Meeting of G8 Justice and Home Affairs
Ministers, Washington
[05-11-04] Meeting of G8 Justice and Home
Affairs Ministers: Communique
[05-11-04]
Meeting of G8 Justice and Home Affairs Ministers: Joint Press Conference
[05-11-04]
Hearing: DOE Nuclear Security: What Are the Challenges, and What's
Next?"
[05-11-04] Multinational interoperability
momentum builds with preparation for live coalition exercise
[05-11-04]
Investigating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: Federal Law
Enforcement Agencies Face Continuing Coordination Challenges, by
Richard M. Stana, director, homeland security and justice, before
the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources,
House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-04-710T
[05-11-04] PSEPC Advisory AV04-022 Vulnerability
in Windows Help and Support Center
[05-11-04] PSEPC Advisory AV04-021 Wallon
Worm
[05-11-04] Homeland
Security: First Phase of Visitor and Immigration Status Program Operating,
but
Improvements Needed. GAO-04-586 [1.6 MB]
[05-11-04] US to Hand Over Saddam to Iraqi
Tribunal
[05-11-04] General Blames Abuse of Iraqi
Prisoners on 'Failure of Leadership'
[05-11-04] White House Condemns Beheading
of American Contractor in Iraq
[05-11-04] Islamist Website Shows Captive's
Beheading
[05-11-04] Congressional Report, May 11:
Army Investigator Testifies
[05-11-04]
Updated:
Event & Conference Diary
[05-10-04] Ridge, EU Officials Discuss
Passenger Data, Aviation Security
[05-10-04] Former NYC Mayor Speaks Out
on Security After 9/11 Attacks
[05-10-04] Red Cross Warned Bush Administration
of Widespread Mistreatment of Iraqi Prisoners
[05-10-04] Latest Events May Bring More
Volatility to Chechnya, say Experts
[05-10-04] Mideast Water Dilemma Seen As
Challenge, Opportunity
[05-10-04] Britain May Prosecute Soldiers
in 2 Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Cases
[05-10-04] Blair Apologizes for Treatment
of Iraqi Prisoners
[05-10-04] U.S. Commander Says Iraqi Prison
Investigations Just Beginning
[05-09-04] Explosion Kills Pro-Moscow Chechen
President
[05-08-04] State Dept. Announces New Program
to Curb Movement of Terrorists
[05-07-04] Rumsfeld Apologizes to Iraqis
Abused by U.S. Soldiers
[05-07-04] Sanders Says U.S. Supports IAEA
Efforts to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
[05-07-04] Ship Piracy in Asia Declining,
International Maritime Bureau Says
[05-07-04] American Lawyer Arrested in
Connection with Madrid Bombings
[05-07-04] Bin Laden Offers 'Reward' for
Death of Annan, Bremer
[05-07-04] Rumsfeld to Apologize to Congress,
Friday
[05-06-04] Washington Post Publishes New
Iraq Prison Photos
[05-06-04] Afghan Militias Stall Demobilization
Process, UN Says
[05-06-04] Experts Debate Impact of Prisoner
Abuse on US Public Support for Iraq War
[05-06-04] Bush Asks Congress for Additional
$25 Billion for Defense
[05-06-04] Congressional Report, May 6:
Prisoner Abuse Hearings Planned
[05-06-04]
DOD Personnel Clearances: Preliminary Observations Related to Backlogs
and Delays in Determining Security Clearance Eligibility for Industry
Personnel, by Gregory C. Wilshusen, acting director, defense management
and capabilities, before the House Committee on Government Reform.
GAO-04-202T
[05-06-04] Suicide Car Bombing Kills 5
in Baghdad
[05-06-04] Army, USJFCOM continue series
of co-sponsored wargames with Unified Quest 04
[05-06-04] Arabs Express Mixed Reactions
Over Bush TV Interviews
[05-05-04]
House Subcommittee on Railroads Hearing on Railroad Security
[05-05-04] Members of Congress Debate
Security of Nation's Railways
[05-05-04] U.S. Counterterrorism Official
Reports Progress to Africans
[05-05-04] Multiple UAVs fly into action,
integrate battle space
[05-05-04] New US Head of Prison System in
Iraq Bans Use Of Hoods
[05-04-04] US Senate Panel Discusses Security
at Olympics
[05-04-04]
INFOCON: UNIRAS Brief - 196/04 - Two Apple Security advisories
[05-04-04] US Group Urges Europe to Tighten
Efforts to Secure Nuclear Facilities in Former Soviet Union
[05-04-04] Pakistan Detains 13 Following
Car Bomb Attack on Chinese Workers
[05-04-04]
Lessons Learned from Security at Past Olympic Games
[05-04-04] US Tests New Security Screening
Program for Commuter Trains
[05-04-04] TSA launches new passenger rail
security testbed
[05-04-04]
Transfer of Budgetary Resources to the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS).
GAO-04-329R, April 30.
[05-03-04] World Experts Study Animal-to-Human
Disease Transmission
[05-03-04]
Spyware: What You
Don't Know Can Hurt You Hearing, April 29
[05-03-04]
Congressional Budget Office: Federal Funding for Homeland Security,
April 2004
[05-03-04] British Cast Doubt on Iraqi
Prisoner Photos
[05-03-04] Oklahoma Dedicates New Federal
Building 9 Year After Terrorist Bombing
[05-03-04] Texas University Receives $18
Million for Research to Prevent Bio-Attacks
[05-03-04] US General Announces Multiple
Investigations Underway Into Reported Abuse Of Iraqis Prisoners
[05-03-04] US General: New Tactics Against
Afghan Insurgents Yielding Results
[05-03-04] Turkish Police Detain 16 Terror
Suspects
[05-02-04] Microsoft Joins Law Enforcement
to Track Perpetrators of Emerging Worm Attacks against Computer Users
[05-01-04] Report Says Airlines Gave Passenger
Data to FBI after 9/11
[05-01-04] Several People Reportedly Killed
in Saudi Terror Attack
[05-01-04]
UNIRAS ALERT - 23/04 - Malicious Software Report - Sasser
[05-01-04]
Updated: Congressional
Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs
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