Anyway, the absence of successful attacks does not prove any lack of terrorist effort.
Despite an decrease in the percentage of successful attacks, piracy is still a real and growing problem.
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During a four-week period, organizations surveyed experienced an average of 72 successful attacks per week, an increase of nearly 45 percent from last year.
Individuals will be given more help to protect themselves, amid a warning from GCHQ that 80% of successful attacks could be thwarted by following simple steps like updating anti-virus software regularly.
But while the measure seems to be working -- there have been no successful attacks in nearly a year -- the restrictions on the movement of Seychellois fishermen has created another problem.
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But visitors can seek reassurance in the fact that Britain's police and intelligence officials have been successful since then in foiling attacks on the capital.
We were successful in thwarting a number of potential attacks on the United States during this period, including an effort to bomb the Los Angeles airport at the time of the millennium celebrations.
Meanwhile, the attacks are not being particularly successful.
"I think if the government and the airline industry are successful in securing the plane against future attacks like that, and it's demonstrated to some degree and it's kind of validated, the issue of height as a relationship to terror will probably go away, " he said.
More than 130 pirates attacks, including close to 50 successful hijackings, were reported in 2008, threatening one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
Mr Peres seems to have been successful in persuading Mr Sharon to calm his personal attacks on Yasser Arafat.
According to the United Nations, there were 115 reported pirate attacks off the Somali coast in 2008, including 46 successful hijackings.
Starr's utter lack of political sophistication, however, made him a successful target of an ongoing series of ferocious, well-aimed attacks by the President's aides, acolytes and allies.
"It should be noted though that this disruption, if successful, would be localised to segments of the internet vulnerable to these attacks, " he told me.
We know of the compromise of techniques used to defend our country through cyberwarfare, drone attacks, covert operations and what turned out to be other nations' successful penetration of terrorist cells.
There have been at least 83 acknowledged pirate attacks off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden this year, 33 of them successful enough to command a ransom.
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