Vol. 3 Issue 1
Editorial
Welcome to first issue of volume three of the journal. Many excellent articles have been published since the journal was first introduced at InfoWarCon in Washington a week before that fateful day on September 11th, 2001. The range of papers presented in the previous issues illustrates the holistic nature of information warfare and information operations disciplines. This issue is no exception with topics as diverse as data mining, propaganda, critical infrastructure protection, and mobile and network security being represented.
This issue has fewer papers than normal. There were more papers submitted but after the review process a number of revised texts were not resubmitted. As the publication process was running over time, the editors decided to release this issue as it is. There are a number of exciting issues in the pipeline for this year. Remember to keep on submitting your papers for publication. The turn around time is normally three to four weeks for review and the revised paper is expected to be resubmitted in the same time period.
The format of the papers can be found on the journal’s web page at:
Details can also be directly obtained from me. Also, remember to send any relevant conferences or publications to be announced so they can be published both in the journal and its web page.
Bill Hutchinson
Email: w.hutchinson@ecu.edu.au
Table of Contents
Paper1: A Tale of Two Cities: Approaches to Counter Terrorism and Critical
Infrastructure Protection in Washington, DC and Canberra
L. Armistead, J.M. Malone
Paper 2: Using Data Mining Techniques for Detecting Terror-Related Activities on the Web
U. Elovici, A. Kandel, M. Last, B. Shapira, O. Zaafrany
Paper 3: A Critique of Coalition Propaganda before the Second Gulf
W. Hutchinson
Paper 4: Mobile Web Service Security
S. Holtmanns
Paper 5: A Case Study in the Security of Network-Enabled Devices
S. Xenitellis, C. Valli
About The Authors
Authors
Leigh Armistead is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Edith Cowan University with an emphasis on Information Operations. Formerly a Master Faculty at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA, where he was a primary instructor for Information Warfare, and served as the editor of their new textbook entitled Information Operations: Warfare and The Hard Reality of Soft Power (Brasseys, forthcoming April 2004). Selected five years in a row as a research fellow for the International National Security Studies program at the US Air Force Academy to conduct IO related research, and he also helped to develop an online IO course for the National Security Agency.
Yuval Elovici is a lecturer at the department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University. He holds Ph.D degree in Information Systems from the TelAviv University, Israel. and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His main areas of interest are computer security, internet security, information economics, and parallel and distributed systems.
Dr. Silke Holtmanns received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Paderborn (Germany). Since September 2000, she has worked as Master Researcher at Ericsson Eurolab. Her research activities include identity and personal attribute management, privacy enhancing technologies as well as application and transport layer security.
Bill Hutchinson is an Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Bill specializes in information warfare and has published numerous papers and a book on the topic. He is chief editor of the Journal of Information Warfare.
Abraham Kandel is a graduate of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Professor Kandel received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. He is the chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, as well as the Endowed Eminent Scholar and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of South Florida. He is also the Executive Director of NISTP (The National Institute for Systems Test and Productivity) at USF. His research interests involve Software Testing, Computational Theory of Perception, Decision-making in Uncertain Environments, Fuzzy Logic, and Data Mining. He is the author or co-author of 19 books, over 400 scientific papers, and the editor or co-editor of 12 research volumes
Mark Last received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems Engineering, BenGurion University of the Negev, Israel. Mark Last has published about 60 papers and chapters in journals, books, and conferences. His current research interests include data mining, intrusion detection, and software testing.
Jeff Malone was the 2003 Chief of Defence Force Fellow at the Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy. He is also enrolled there in a PhD program dealing with the role of information-based activities in Australian national security policy. He is a serving officer in the Australian Regular Army, and has served in a variety of Army, joint and policy appointments in his 18 years of military service. Additionally, he has held teaching appointments at a number of Australian universities in political science and intelligence and security studies.