Editorial

Welcome to the first issue in the sixth year of JIW. As in previous issues, there are a variety of issues examined. The first paper by Hutchinson, Huhtinen and Rantapelkonen explores the idea that the perspective taken of a particular problem or conflict fundamentally effects the tactics and strategies used in it, and so the consequent outputs. Gray and Martin explain the consequences of actions in terms of an interesting concept ‘backfires’ and their relationships to types of propaganda.

The next two papers are more technology oriented. Karakasiliotis, Furnell, and Papadaki examine the contemporary problem of phishing and how we can distinguish between genuine and deceptive messages. Voipio and Addams-Moring examine methods of filtering out unsolicited messages.

The final paper by Pye and Warren explores the use of systems’ methods and their use in critical infrastructure modelling.

I hope you enjoy and are enlightened by the contents of this issue.

Bill Hutchinson

March, 2007

Email: w.hutchinson@ecu.edu.au

Table of Contents

 Paper 1: The impact of perspective on the effects and outcomes of conflict

W. Hutchinson, A. Huhtinen, J. Rantapelkonen

Paper 2: Backfires: White, Black and Grey

T. Gray, B. Martin

Paper 3: An assessment of end-user vulnerability of phishing attacks

A.Karakasiliotis, S.M.Furnell, M.Papadaki

Paper 4: Identifying unsolicited bulk e-mail messages with header field comparisons

M.Voipio, R. Addams-Moring

Paper 5: Modelling critical infrastructure systems

G. Pye, M. J. Warren

About The Authors

Ronja Addams-Moring earned a nurse’s degree in 1988.  She has worked as an e-communication skills coach since 1989 and since 1994 on and off as a consultant for ICT-related business processes.  Ronja has worked for start-up projects, for large companies and within adult and higher education.  Since 1998 her main employment has been in academia. She teaches scientific research and writing skills at Helsinki University of Technology and at the Finnish Defence College .  Her research interests are in mobile emergency announcements (public warnings sent to mobile phones, pagers and PDAs).

Steven Furnell is the head of the Network Research Group at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, and an Adjunct Associate Professor with Edith Cowan University in Western Australia . His current areas of interest include security management, computer crime, user authentication, and security usability.  He is the author of over 170 papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings, as well as the books Cybercrime: Vandalizing the Information Society (2001) and Computer Insecurity: Risking the System (2005).

Truda Gray has a sociology degree from the University of New South Wales and is completing a law degree at the University of Wollongong . She is studying corporate programs for engineering consent.

Aki-Mauri Huhtinen is a professor at Department of Management and Leadership Studies. He has written numerous academic papers on Information Operations, military philosophy and leadership and is co-author of Image Wars. His original doctorate was in Theoretical Philosophy and he passed the General Staff Officers’ Examination in 2000 at the Finnish National Defence University . He has served with ISAF liaison officer at the USCENTRAL COMMAND. He is also the Docent of practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki and Docent of social consequences of media and information technology at the University of Lapland .

Bill Hutchinson is the IBM Chair at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia . He has written numerous papers on Information Operations and a co-author of Information Warfare: Corporate Attack and Defence in a Corporate World. Bill is chief editor of the Journal of Information Warfare.

Athanasios Karakasiliotis was born in Athens, Greece, and studied Computer Engineering and Communications in John Moores University in Liverpool, UK . After his graduation in July 2005, he attended the MRes Information System Security course at University of Plymouth, UK (2005-2006), where he was a researcher within the Network Research Group. His current interests include security awareness of Internet users in social engineering and phishing attacks.

Brian Martin is an associate professor in the School of Social Sciences , Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of twelve books and hundreds of articles in a range of areas including war and peace, scientific controversies, dissent and information issues.

Maria Papadaki is a Lecturer in Network Security at the University of Plymouth, UK. Prior to returning to academia, she was working as a Security Analyst for Symantec Managed Security Services. Her research interests mainly focus around the areas of network monitoring, intrusion prevention, detection and response.

Graeme Pye is an Associate Lecturer with the School of Information Systems, Deakin University, Australia . His research is focused on developing a practical model of Australian critical infrastructure and investigating the influence of relationships between associated infrastructures. Also, Graeme is a doctoral candidate focused on modelling critical infrastructure issues regarding both information systems and associated technology based relationships. He is also interested in Information Warfare and benchmarking information security.

Jari Rantapelkonen, PhD is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Finnish Army. At present, he is Leader of a research group at the Finnish National Defence University , Department of Management and Leadership Studies. He is co-author of the text Image Wars and has written a number of academic texts. He has served with UNDOF in the Middle East, UNPREDEP in the Balkans, ISAF liaison officer at the USCENTRAL COMMAND, and ISAF, Information Operations Analysis, Kabul, Afghanistan . His doctorate was on The Narrative Leadership of War.

Mikko Voipio is an engineer and IT specialist. His research concerns electronic mail communication and especially the problem of UBE filtering. He is presently a doctoral candidate in Helsinki University of Technology.

Matt Warren is the Head of School and a Professor in the School of Information Systems, Deakin University, Australia . He has a PhD in Information Security Management from Plymouth University, UK and during that time worked on several large European Union research projects. He has authored/co authored over 180 books, book chapters, journal papers and conference papers. His research has been quoted by the media in Australia, Denmark, France, Ireland, Peoples Republic of China, South Africa, Sweden, UK, USA and by the US Government