created a “potential vector” for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to exploit and compromise American security. In what appears to be cyber-war political posturing, Chinese police arrested over 10,000 suspects and 600 criminal gangs during its latest crackdown on cybercrime while U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, has publically stated that after several years of escalating diplomacy and warnings, the U.S. is making little headway in its efforts to tamp down aggressive Chinese cyber-attacks against American companies and the government. October 8, 2012, a report from the House Intelligence Committee warned that American companies should avoid doing business with China’s telecom companies because they poses a national security threat to the U.S. and that “China has the means, opportunity, and motive to use telecommunications companies for malicious purposes”.

3.7: Militarybut not limited to active-shooter scenarios, bio-chemical attacks, dirty bomb explosion and suicide terror attacks. In 2001, FEMA officials simulated a terror attack on the Superdome in New Orleans Louisiana, just prior to it hosting the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl terror drill simulated explosions as well as the outbreak of a mysterious bio-terror plague. Coincidentally, the Superdome will also host the 2013 Super Bowl on February 3, 2013.

5.2: NFL Dirty Bomb Terror Plot (October, 2006)

On October 20, 2006, it was reported that Jake J. Brahm, an alleged 20-year-old grocery store clerk, had posted threats on the internet of a terrorist attacks on NFL stadiums in which radioactive “dirty bombs” would be detonated at seven NFL football stadiums. According to reports, Brahm’s posting on October 18, 2006, targeted