Tag: Entertainment/Culture
LSE group on North Korea trip thought Panorama cameraman was a spy
A BBC Panorama cameraman who posed as a former student to report undercover from North Korea was suspected of being a spy before he even reached Pyongyang. The cover of film-maker, Alexander Niakaris, was blown only hours after he joined
REVIEW: The Reader of Gentlemen’s Mail. Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Intelligence
By David Kahn. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. 242 pages Few authors have so successfully mined the history of codebreaking. In Kahn's latest book, he explores the life and times of Herbert Yardley, one of the forgotten figures
REVIEW: The Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency
By W. Thomas Smith, Jr. New York, NY: Checkmark Books, Facts-on-File, 2003. 282 pages. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An encyclopedia is defined as a comprehensive reference work containing full, complete, in-depth, thorough, wide-ranging, all-encompassing, accurate, exhaustive, articles on numerous aspects of a particular
REVIEW: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Spies and Espionage
By Rodney Carlisle. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 2003. 340 pages. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ [...] The same cannot be said of Spies and Espionage—it is an encyclopedia of errata. After short comments on intelligence in Elizabethan times, the American War of Independence, and
Review: Hack the Stack: Using Snort and Ethereal to Master the 8 Layers of an Insecure Network
by Michael Gregg (principal author), Stephen Watkins, George Mays, Chris Ries, Ron Bandes, Brandon Franklin Pages: 442 pages Publisher: Syngress ___________________________________________________________________ Like many books with multiple authors, it's a mixed blessing. I would also like to suggest to Syngress that
Review: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone. CRC Press ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Scenario CRC Press has been building a series of books on discrete mathematics and its applications. Doug Stinson wrote the theory book on cryptography (Cryptography:
Pentagon, CIA check firsthand book on bin Laden raid for leaks, secrets as publication nears
WASHINGTON – U.S. officials said Monday they were reviewing a copy of a soon-to-be-published firsthand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, checking for leaks of classified information. Pentagon spokesman George Little said Defence Department officials "received the
Review: The New School of Information Security
by Adam Shostack and Andrew Stewart. Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, March 26, 2008, Pages in Print Edition: 288 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi everyone and welcome to another post in my favourite blog entry category: Book Reviews. I'm happy to announce that for the
REVIEW: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
By Frances Stonor Saunders. New York: The New Press, 2000. 509 pages. Reviewed by Thomas M. Troy, Jr. If The Cultural Cold War had been published in the 1960s or 1970s, it most likely would have caused a sensation and
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Suicide Bomber Kills 6 in Somali Capital
Officials say a suicide bombing at Somalia's national theater has killed at least six people, including the president of the country's Olympic committee and the head of its soccer federation. The blast Wednesday in the capital, Mogadishu, came during a
