In Threat Vector, by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney, Campus operatives, which include the main protagonist Jack Ryan Jr., are assigned to assassinate different targets to each individual. However, all four of the operatives, Jack Ryan Jr., Dominic Caruso, Sam Driscoll and Domingo Chaves, have been identified, and Jack seeks to destroy the trace by destroying the hard drive in the computer. In China, President Wei Zhen Lin is suffering from an economic recession. He was close to suicide from his arrest, but Chairman Su Ke Qiang prevented him from being arrested. Su’s “savior” status was only the beginning to the plan of China taking back Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan. With the help of Dr. Tong Kwok Kwan, the head of Chinese cyberespionage and cyberwarfare, they would be able to take those main …show more content…
interest easily. Meanwhile, Valentin Kovalenko, a former spy for Russia, was taken out of prison to either work with a mysterious criminal group, or be killed inside the prison. Kovalenko chose to work with the group, and his death was faked.
Meanwhile, Todd Wicks was blackmailed to work for a honeypot operation, which involved him handing over a hard drive with a Remote Administration Tool trojan to Hendley Associates, for him not being charged to a solicitation of prostitution to the Chinese. Back to Hendley Associates, Jack Ryan Jr.’s girlfriend, Melanie Kraft, was blackmailed by FBI Agent Darren Lipton, into spying his boyfriend, in exchange for Lipton to not share leaked info of Kraft’s father in Pakistan. Moving back to Hendley Associates, John Clark, a member of The Campus, or Hendley Associates, decided to retire after going through multiple surgeries in his hand, which was a result of Valentin Kovalenko’s torture. Gavin Biery, an “IT” guy at Hendley Associates, finds out that the hard drive Ryan Jr. found had traces back to Chinese hackers, and the main hacker traced back to China had the handle “FastByte22”. In China, President Wei publicly announces to take back the South China Sea by military force if necessary, and U.S. forces send a Virginia-class submarine to Subic Bay, Philippines, to send a message to the Chinese that they would
fight. Nearing the end of the half of the book, Adam Yao, a CIA Agent, is investigating on Chinese counterfeit manufacturers, who may be connected to the Triads, a large crime group in China, and he spots Zha Shu Hai, a convict from America who escaped to China. He later finds out that Zha uses the handle FastByte22, and he communicates with CIA forces in the U.S.A., but Zha’s hacker group manages to catch the message, and Zha no longer uses the handle FastByte22. In the U.S.A., multiple UAVs lose control from U.S. forces, and it seems that hackers are changing its direction to compromise U.S. recon assignments. In the end, President Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan Jr.’s father, orders for all UAVs to be locked onto based (no flight).
While at camp, Greyson overhears some cafeteria workers having a suspicious conversation about the observatory. One of the cafeteria workers warns Greyson “You will not tell a soul about whatever you heard.” Greyson decides to lead a group of his friends to the observatory to investigate the legend when they discover the cafeteria workers and some other men pretending to be astronomers and hiding a secret. The fake astronomers convince the kids to return to camp, but Greyson remembers the last thing that his dad told him, "Do the good that should be done" and he works with his camp counselor to plan a return trip to the observatory. Greyson assigns each of his friends an important role in the plan and under Greyson’s leadership they manage to sneak into the observatory and steal two keys that the terrorists need to launch a missile hidden inside. Like a true hero, Greyson leads the terrorists on a great chase back to camp, “The bullets hit, blashing chunks from the trees all around them. Bark rained on the hood and their heads; sharp splinters stung their faces, forcing Greyson to stomp on the brakes and throw himself into the back of the cart, dragging Sydney with him.” and he remains brave and daring even when he ends up being taken hostage. Finally, when the FBI arrives to deal with the terrorists, Greyson and his friends use their best sport skills one last time to stop the attack
The article ‘Web of Risks’ by Brad Stone, is about how young adults misuse social media and there are consequences. Cameron Walker, a sophomore at Fisher College had organized a petition dedicated to getting a campus security guard fired and put it on Facebook. Marc Zuckerberg designed Facebook in 2003 and it is a well-known website used worldwide. On the Facebook page Walker wrote that the security guard harassed students and needed to be eliminated. His plan backfired due to his use of wording and it came off threatening so he was expelled. Social media is looked at as a way to express yourself. Different social networks are used such as Facebook, Bebo, and Myspace. On these sites sometimes personal life is published,
In the attack, Captain Poison is injured and is taken to prison in Freetown, along with Solomon. In the prison, there is an ex-mercenary from Rhodesia, Danny Archer, who is imprisoned because of smuggling the diamonds into Liberia. Archer had heard about the pink diamond, he arranged himself and Solomon freed from prison and in the exchange of diamond, he helps Solomon to find his family. They reach to an American journalist, Maddy Bowen, who helps Solomon track down his family and as an exchanged, Archer give her the information about the diamond market to stop the blood diamonds flow and get access to use the press convoy travel to Kono to find diamond.
1.The episode consists of several undercover agents that have put their lives on the line to bring down corrupt officers. This specific case takes place in New Orleans 1993, a time period where cocaine was in demand. Drug lords turned to cops for protection and paid them money for their service. The FBI became aware of the corruption of different officers in the department and decided to take action. The FBI was able to take action until they received a call from a well-known drug dealer, Scaboo.
Todd Hackett is a main character who lives with the continuous threat of failure while he
This assignment looks at the importance of safeguarding and how practitioners and agencies should be involved to help prevent any risks when dealing with a vulnerable adult. The case study is about a 22 year old vulnerable adult called Andrew who has been diagnosed with autism. According to (Autism.org.uk, 2017) Autism is a complex developmental disability that usually affects children during early childhood. It is a condition that can affect communication, behavior, social interactions and how people experience and interact in the general word around them.
Jack Aaron Hotchner didn't have the most talk able childhood. Born in 1984 to Aaron and Haley Hotchner. Jack was the pride and joy of the Hotchner family. Doted on by many. He was his fathers mini me as Aaron called him behind closed doors. Jack admired his father, he loved that his father was out there protecting people. Jack was only 4 years old when he went through the biggest shock of his life. His father lying in a hospital bed after he had gotten attacked by George Foyet. It was something that scared Jack. Placed along with his mother in witness protection they went into hiding in case Foyet came back. Which he did, but this time he came back with a vengeance. Killing Haley, Jack was hiding in a chest of towels like he had once done before. He called it "Working The Case." After Haley died, Aaron sold the home they lived in, of course he hadn't lived there in a while. Aaron and Haley had been in the middle of a divorce, she couldn't handle him working the cases that he worked.
Investigating the area, they find Neltz only to escape back to Miami. Before leaving, he mentions that he took a deal from Stoddard. The officers corner him in a Miami warehouse only for Stoddard to kill Neltz as he was about to elaborate more about their deal. Nick leaves in disgust after Stoddard and Khai take some cash before more officers arrived. Later, as a hurricane makes landfall, Dawes sends Nick and Khai back to the crime scene for any evidence incriminating Stoddard. Finding Neltz's recording implicating Stoddard, Nick finds his former partner in a meeting with other dealers but is forced to work with him to rescue Khai from more armed men. The three later meet Dawes, who destroys the evidence implicating Stoddard and revealing that himself and Khai are corrupt. The three betray Nick due to his refusal to go along with their scheme, framing him for laundering Neltz's drug
Summary/Plot: The movie Zero Dark Thirty is a fictional account, loosely based on the finding and killing of Osama Bin Laden and his associates. The film details U.S. and foreign government interagency cooperation between organizations, such as the military, CIA, FBI, and Pakistan ISI, to track down and kill Osama Bin Laden. The story centers on certain CIA agents and the methods used to extract information from alleged terrorists so Bin Laden’s location could be determined. Set in the threatening regions of the Middle East, CIA operative Maya, whose only job at the CIA has been to find where Bin Laden is hiding, and Dan, who teaches Maya how the CIA operates in Pakistan, are assigned to work together in Pakistan’s U.S. Embassy. While in Pakistan, they interrogate and torture a prisoner thought to be connected to Osama Bin Laden. After a difficult interrogation, the prisoner finally tells the CIA about a messenger who works for Osama Bin Laden. The prisoner ends up giving the CIA the wrong name of the messenger, but they find out the real name by tapping the messenger’s mother’s phone. By tracing the call and following their suspect back to the compound by the Pakistan Military Academy, SEAL Team 6 were able to find and eventually kill Osama Bin Laden. In the end, Maya confirms the body to be Osama Bin Laden.
Harry Stamper, a deep earth driller is hard at work on his oil rig in the middle of the China Sea. Harry is surrounded by a lively crew: Harry’s right-hand man, Chick, is great at his job, but has screwed up his life gambling; Bear, the loveable gentle giant; Rock Hound, a horny genius that knows everything there is to know about geology; Max, the mamma’s boy; Oscar, a brilliant but quirky geologist; and last but not least, AJ, the young, “hot dogging, show off” that is constantly going against what Harry tells him to do. Harry has recently found out that AJ and his little girl, Grace (also his employee) are intimately involved. Harry, not happy about the relationship, fires AJ, but not before he chases him around the rig with a shotgun, accidently shooting him in the leg. Amidst all of the chaos of Grace and AJ’s newly discovered relationship, Harry is asked to come to the NASA headquarters on orders from the President of the United States. Harry reluctantly agrees to go, on the condition that he gets to bring Grace with
Firstly, one major event that happened that I want to explain is the murder of Hurr Dorfmann. Rapp, Hurly, and Richards paid Dorfmann a very unpleasant visit that he was not expecting. When those three are together only bad things can happen. The reason their mission was to kill and extract knowledge from Dorfmann was because he was managing millions of dollars for terrorists in the Middle East. Hurley, being an old-timer
Founded by the Monterey Group (Terrorism Committee for the U.S. Legislature), the United States adopted a three-level categorization for cyber-terror including simple-unstructured, advanced-structures, and complex-coordinated (Findlay, 2014). At the first level of cyber-terror is a simple unstructured attack. Under this category, a simple-unstructured attack involves very diminutive target analysis, command and control, or learning skills. This type of attack is normally planned within a matter of months and targets a general organization. Next is the level of an advanced-structured attack, which requires a straightforward target analysis, command and control, learning skills, and a high amount of planning in order to cause extensive damage. For example, in 2007, there was a three-week period of cyber-attacks on Estonia (located in Northern Europe), which targeted the country’s government, financial, and security divisions. Due to the extensive planning of this sophisticated attack, Estonia’s government was thrown into chaos and was unable to operate at full capacity. Finally, at the last level of cyber terrorism is the complex-coordinated attack (Extremely rare). At the highest level of terror, these attacks require substantial time, specialized skills, resources, and a highly capable target analysis. One of these substantially rare attacks
National security in the United States is extremely important and requires extensive risk management measures including strategic, exercise, operational and capability-based planning, research, development, and making resource decisions in order to address real-world events, maintain safety, security and resilience (Department of Homeland Security [DHS], 2011). The national security and threat assessment process consists of identifying the risk and establishing an objective, analyzing the relative risks and environment, exploring alternatives and devising a plan of action for risk management, decision making and continued monitoring and surveillance (DHS, 2011). Identifying risks entails establishing a context to define the risk, considering related risks and varying scenarios, including the unlikely ones, which then leads to the analysis phase; gathering data and utilizing various methodologies and analysis data software systems to survey incidence rates, relative risks, prevalence rates, likelihood and probable outcomes (DHS, 2011). These two key phases lay the foundation to explore alternatives and devise action plans. Threats, vulnerabilities and consequences (TCV) are also a key component of many national security risk management assessments because it directly relates to safety and operation capabilities, but the text stress that it should not be included in the framework of every assessment because it is not always applicable (DHS, 2011).
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