bombs
RSS bombsBody scanners to check UK rail passengers for bombs
News In the immediate aftermath of the 7 July bombings in London the government has also said it planned to evaluate high-tech millimetre wave imaging technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people. [31 Oct 2005]
London attacks: Were mobiles used to detonate bombs?
News The role that such devices played in the Madrid bombings, which left almost 200 people dead in the Spanish capital, is well documented: 10 bombs were attached to mobile handsets, with the phones' alarms used to detonate the explosives. [08 Jul 2005]
Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service
White Paper This paper uncovers a vulnerability that allows for an attacker to perform an email-based attack on selected victims, using only standard scripts and agents. What differentiates the attack this paper described from other, already known forms of... [20 Feb 2008]
Dot-bombs a thing of the past?
News The fortunes of dot-com companies could be taking a turn for the better, according to a report on mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2001, conducted by research firm Webmergers. Webmergers said despite tough times for internet-based... [02 Aug 2001]
Do MP3s contain virus time-bombs?
News A hoax is doing the rounds today, which warns users who have downloaded songs from the likes of Napster that many MP3 files contain malicious code on 4 July. Users of at least three Usenet discussion groups were warned that around 500 of the most... [29 Jun 2001]
Police to test bomb-detecting body-scanners
News The government and police are planning to evaluate scanning technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people following the suicide bomb attacks on London this month. [22 Jul 2005]
Revealed: Strangest business tech emergencies
News Unexploded bombs, blocked sewers and burning wheelie bins are just some of the strange incidents that have forced companies to activate their business continuity plans. World War II bombs discovered in a nearby building site caused one company to... [27 Apr 2007]
Email traffic doubled after London bomb blasts
News Email traffic has doubled in Europe today after four bombs exploded in central London. Sky News has reported that 45 people were killed this morning after three bombs exploded on the London Underground train network and a fourth detonated on a... [07 Jul 2005]
Customs and Border Protection: Combating the Threat of Nuclear Smuggling at Home and Abroad
White Paper The Customs and Border Protection employs a multi-layered approach to protect America from the introduction of nuclear weapons, radiation dispersal bombs (dirty bombs), and other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). [07 Feb 2005]
Incitement to Violence on the World Wide Web: Can Web Publishers Seek First Amendment Refuge?
White Paper On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado armed with a semiautomatic pistol, carbine, two sawed-off shotguns, and dozens of homemade bombs. Harris and Klebold planted at least 30 pipe... [24 Feb 2004]
UK minister calls for global response to Web threat
News Even more sinister are the pipe-bomb-making instructions, which carry the thoughtful caution, 'Pipe bombs are killing devices', and the helpful advice, 'For more bombs, click here. The UK government has responded to a House of Commons question... [10 May 1999]
Leader: Tech and terror
Leader Some mainstream news programmes started to talk about mobile networks being used to detonate the four bombs. While the first scenario above - bombs set off from afar - is technically possible, it is unlikely in the case of the Tube trains that were... [11 Jul 2005]
John Lamb's week: E-marketers say show me the money
Comment Enigma codes were deciphered using so-called bombs, developed by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park. The bombs were the forerunners of early computers. That's according to a salary survey released today by Reward Group and the Chartered... [21 Sep 2001]
Statistics for Homeland Defense
White Paper The flying bombs of September 11, the subsequent anthrax letters, and credible threats of future attacks have prompted a comprehensive reevaluation of U.S.security systems. Statisticians are not major players in this effort, but there are... [24 Jan 2005]
Building Access Control Applications
White Paper Concerns about bombs, theft, and employee management prompted the passing of a law that requires all public offices to develop progressive measures for tracking personnel. Responding to a new Italian law, post offices in Bologna, Italy recently... [15 Jun 2005]
