Presenter Chris Bath and Chief Political Correspondent Glenn Milne spoke with the President of the Terrorism Research Centre, Matthew Devost, about the terrorist risk to Australia and what measures can be taken to prevent an attack.
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This essay, written for the Global Business Briefing, provides and overview of cyberthreats to critical infrastructures.

When hackers broke into Ryan Russell’s server and plastered his private e-mails and other personal files on the Internet last week, Russell tried to shrug it off as a harmless prank.

But Russell, editor of Hack Proofing Your Network and an analyst with SecurityFocus.com, also seemed shaken by the incident.

“There’s a group out there whose goal in life is to show they’re smarter than you and they have the tools to do it,” said Russell, a “white-hat” hacker who goes by the nickname “BlueBoar.”
The break-in at Russell’s Thieveco.com site, which is hosted by a Canadian ISP, appears to be the latest in a series of attacks against white hats and prominent figures in the information security profession.

Claiming responsibility for the attacks is a shadowy group named el8. Earlier this year, members launched Project Mayhem, a campaign designed to “cause worldwide physical destruction to the security industry infrastructure,” according to an article published last month in el8’s online magazine.

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An interesting twist to an old debate…”Now a former White House chief of staff and an international investigative journalist want to know what the Pentagon knows, calling on it to release classified files about that and other incidents involving unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. ”

CNN.com - Clinton aide slams Pentagon’s UFO secrecy - Oct. 22, 2002