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  • National Infrastructure Protection Center Security Information Update–Beginning Of Ramadan

    11/07/2002 9:57:05 PM PST · by Timesink · 5 replies · 228+ views
    National Infrastructure Protection Center Security Information Update–Beginning Of Ramadan Information Bulletin 02-009 November 6, 2002  NIPC Information Bulletins communicate issues that pertain to the critical national infrastructure and are for informational purposes only. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on 11/06/02 and continues through 12/05/02. A period of reflection and spiritual discipline, Ramadan is observed by Muslims around the world, including those in the United States. Al-Qaeda and sympathetic jihadists may view Ramadan as having religious incentives and symbolic and operational advantages for conducting terrorist attacks. Nonspecific intelligence reporting also indicates al-Qaeda may strike this Ramadan. Information indicates...
  • FBI plays cyber-fear card again

    08/07/2002 8:07:20 AM PDT · by JameRetief · 161+ views
    The Register USA ^ | 8-6-2002 | Thomas C. Greene
    FBI plays cyber-fear card again By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 08/06/2002 at 16:30 EST There's a new warning from the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), an elite cyber squad famous for infecting its own network with SirCam, and which consistently manages to worry us about the wrong things at the wrong time. Today it's a blistering cyber attack from Europe targeting American ISPs and Web sites. Only it seems not to have occurred, in spite of being based on 'credible information'. One has to wonder if the original source might be an IRC channel full of boastful...