As the world’s cities swell they’re being forced to change. Steven Watson takes a look at the new challenges facing urban living and uncovers some interesting attempts to manage the transition.
A new study by Norton reveals the staggering prevalence of cybercrime: 65% of internet users globally, and 73% of U.S. web surfers have fallen victim to cybercrimes, including computer viruses, [...]
Many forces today, such as trade, global capital flows and environmental degradation, are thought to undermine sovereignty. The developing conventional wisdom seems to be that the internet is joining the [...]
With a few notable exceptions, the weapons and tactics of terrorists have not changed, but the perceptions of threat and the vulnerability of modern societies have. Open publication – Free [...]
Throughout history, military doctrine, organization and strategy have continually undergone profound changes due in part to technological breakthroughs. Today, a variety of new technologies are once again taking hold, and [...]
This study uses the modified Gompertz model and sparse data to analyze the growth rates of different types of computer and internet-related crimes. Open publication – Free publishing – More [...]
Washington has become transfixed by cyber security and with good reason. Cyber threats cost Americans billions of dollars each year and put U.S. troops at risk. Yet, too much of [...]
Almost every new technology developed has brought great benefits attached with some risks. To each ‘technology’, there is an ‘anti- technology’, making it a double edged weapon. But whatever be [...]
The internet is a powerful political instrument, which is increasingly employed by terrorists to forward their goals. The five most prominent contemporary terrorist uses of the net are information provision, [...]
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are extending the arena within which extremists and terrorists operate. Among the most active participants are Islamists and the Far Right, whose increasingly networked formats [...]
