NEW SECURITY LEARNING

By Andrew Rosthorn

In primeval Cold War days, when half the Internet was still called MILNET and the other half was known as the ARPANET, the celebrated cyber sleuth Clifford Stoll discovered to his horror that the entry password to a computer leading into the Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, was nothing more than ‘SAC’.

By Harold Elletson

Norway is still grieving after the appalling slaughter on the island of Utoya and in Oslo. There is, however, an urgent need to ask what may prove to be some very uncomfortable questions both about the genesis of the attacks and, unfortunately, about the competence of Norway’s police and security establishment in responding to them.