PACOM Week in Review Ending 27 December 2009

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CN: China Signals No Clemency For British Drugs Mule 12/24/09

ID: Rekindling rebellion in Indonesia 12/25/09

KP: Murky, global trail of NKorea weapons smugglers illuminated after Thai bust 12/25/09

KS: Improvement in condition in Jammu-Kashmir, north east States: Govt. 12/24/09

NP: Kathmandu on the boil again 12/24/09

PH: Guns to fall silent as govt, CPP declare truce 12/23/09

PH: Philippines Destroys $13.7 Million Worth Of Illegal Drugs 12/24/09

PH: Spewing Philippine Volcano Forces Mass Evacuation 12/23/09

PH: Suspected militants release hostage in the Philippines 12/25/09

TH: Thailand has ‘stabilised and prospered' 12/23/09

Below the Fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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Event: 25 Jan – 2 Feb 2010 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 14th African Union Summit Focused on Information and Communication Technologies

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14th African Union Summit

Theme is  “Information and Commuication  Technologies (ICT) in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development”

Main Events:

  1. 25-26 January 2010: The 19th Session of the Permanent Representatives    Committee (PRC).
  1. 28-29 January 2010: The 16th Session of the Executive Council.
  1. 31 January – 02 February 2010: The 14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union.

Venues:

PRC and Executive Council meetings: African Union Headquarters.
Assembly meeting: United Nations Conference Center (UNCC).

Journalists are invited to cover the event.

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 24 December 2009

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AA: Russia Test-fires ‘Voevoda' Intercontinental Missile 12/24/09

AF: Taliban issue video of captive US soldier 12/25/09

AF: Troops Secure Former Taliban Ghost Town in Afghanistan 12/25/09

YE: Yemen is growing front in Al Qaida battle 12/23/09

Below the fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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Journal: Cyber-Security Etc. & Multinational Engagement

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As attacks increase, U.S. struggles to recruit computer security experts

Hackers break Amazon's Kindle DRM–The great ebook ‘unswindle'

Peace, Justice and the Lord's Resistance Army

Weapons-carrying plane headed for Sri Lanka

Phi Beta Iota: It has finally come to pass.  Cyber-security–like the Black Plague before it–and of course the ten high-level threats to humanity so ably identified by the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change–is a modern demonstration of three irrefutable facts of life:

1.  The US does not know what it needs to know and is incapable of fielding a cyber-security cadre.

2.  Multinational Engagement is the ONLY possible, reasonable, affordable solution for what ails the Whole Earth.

3.  The 21st Century is the Century of unfathomable complexity, when our blissful ignorance of that complexity is just sufficiently lifted so that we realize that we are NOT an adaptive complex society; that our Industrial Era top down command and control based on secrets and unilateral uninformed and often corrupt decision-making is pathologically inept, and that new means, ways, and ends must be found.

Multinational Engagement is NOT about false promises, lip service, tokenism, or blustering treaties and theatrical agreements.  It is about deep open collaboration in eradicating every threat by harmonizing planning, programming, budgeting, and behavior (PPBB) across all twelve policies, so as to enable the eight demographic powers to create a prosperous world at peace despite over 400 years of Western imperialism and coddling of “friendly” dictators.

On background (DVD), as we write this, Gandhi has just been sentenced to jail for non-cooperation with the British government occupying India and now non-violent multi-faith–Hindu and Muslim– citizens of India are marching five by five in an endless number, exhausting the paucity of stick-wielding Vichy Indians.

Journal: Cyber-Security or Cyber-Scam? Plus Short List of Links to Reviews and Books on Hacking 101

Reference: Are Hackers Pioneers with the Right Stuff or Criminal Pathological Scum? Mitch Kabay Reprises

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Event: 27-28 Jan 2010 London UK CyberWarfare 2010

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Key highlights for the Cyber Warfare 2010 programme include:

  • Insights into the evolving cyber threats to national security and information systems and evaluation of solutions to mitigate the threat from international military cyber commands
  • Analysis of current and future legal issues political pressures and challenges surrounding Cyber Warfare attacks and appropriate national cyber space activity
  • Evolving national policy and doctrinal updates of Cyber Security and Cyber warfare from the UK MoD, US DoD, Swiss MoD, Italian MoD and Danish MoD
  • Examination and lessons learnt from cyber attacks with insights from NATO studies and Estonian MoD
  • Latest technology updates in cyberspace and current research and development for both Computer Network Defence and Computer Network Attack

Event: 10-14 Apr 2009 Olympia UK Counter-Terror

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‘Countering Terrorism in a Changed World’ offers two streams of keynote and case study sessions from an impressive array of national and international expert speakers who will share their unique focus on the most significant global security issues.

The conference will also include a stream dedicated to ‘Protecting Crowded Places’ produced in association with the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO).