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Threat From TCP Hole 'small' - Researcher
News Watson was responding to news reports after Britain's national emergency response team, the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, released an advisory about the issue based on his research.
[April 22, 2004, 9:05]
TCP Hole Endangers Flow Of Data
News A flaw in the most popular communications protocol for sending data on the Net could let attackers shut down connections between servers and routers, according to an advisory released on Tuesday by Britain's national emergency response team.
[April 21, 2004, 8:45]
Code Exists To Exploit TCP Flaw
News Britain's national emergency response team, the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, brought attention to the issue on Tuesday when it released an advisory about the issue based on Watson's research, an advisory that triggered a...
[April 23, 2004, 9:10]
Weathering The Cyber Storm
News The response system, is that the Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT, for example? We believe that we have a robust national cybersecurity response system. Priority one was to build an effective national cybersecurity response system.
[February 21, 2006, 14:35]
US Names Cybersecurity Head
News Previously he worked on the Computer Emergency Response Team at the Department of Defense, which defends the US military's sprawling computer networks, and founded the information-security company Riptech.
[September 16, 2003, 9:05]
Singapore Unveils Cybersecurity Masterplan
News The facility will complement the services provided by the Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team, an IDA-operated group that assists the public and companies in handling hacking incidents and virus attacks.
[February 23, 2005, 11:20]
Feds Issue Warning As Virus Spreads
News Officials of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie Mellon University reported that by early Sunday evening more than 100 sites had been hit by the virus. These organisations have hundreds and thousands of machines that can't get e...
[March 29, 1999, 8:46]
Experts Warn Of New-style Cyber Attack
News Typically, you block the single network address that is attacking you," said Longstaff, whose group works with the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon. Over the past six weeks, network servers have come under...
[October 20, 1999, 10:45]
Homeland Security Gives Cyber 'early Warning System' Details
Blog Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk after a separate session at the RSA Conference, Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and communications at the Department of Homeland Security, said that while information was already shared between the US...
[April 8, 2008, 22:35]
IT Experts Scramble To Stop Melissa
News Officials of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie Mellon University reported that by early Sunday evening more than 100 sites had been hit by the virus. These organisations have hundreds and thousands of machines that can't get e...
[March 30, 1999, 9:34]
Photos: Tech Reconnects Earthquake Victims
News The next stage of any emergency response is to widen the scope of the communications centre to allow civilians — such as Ms Hernandez — to contact relatives. They [corporate backers] enable us to already have the funds to deploy in an emergency.
[August 21, 2007, 17:24]
Internet Hacking Threat To National Security
News The government-funded Cert (Computer Emergency Response Team) at Janet (Joint Educational Network), however, believes public concern is unfounded. Nearly a third of all Britons believe the Internet poses a serious threat to national security...
[July 11, 2000, 11:22]
Code Red: Alive Again And Kicking
News The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a Carnegie Mellon University organisation that tracks security issues, said in a statement issued Wednesday morning that it has "begun receiving reports of increasing Code Red scanning activity".
[August 2, 2001, 9:03]
Bringing Law To The Security Jungle
News FIRST, a worldwide consortium of security incident response teams such as the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Center, coordinates further CVSS development. FIRST is calling on the software industry to include CVSS scores in its security...
[September 19, 2005, 9:10]
Bug Alert Firm Sets New Guidelines
News Normally, security researchers will notify NIPC and Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center, a clearinghouse for information about vulnerabilities. Chris Rouland, director of ISS's vulnerability research and analysis team, said...
[December 3, 2002, 8:43]
FBI Criticised For Ignoring Early Code Red Warnings
News It decided against publicising the .htr worm on the basis that the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University had posted a report of the .htr vulnerability when it was first detected in June 1999.
[September 6, 2001, 13:18]
US Head Of Cybersecurity Quits To Spend More Time With His Family
News The homeland security position was Yoran's second tour of government duty; he once headed vulnerability assessment at the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team and managed the Pentagon's network security.
[October 4, 2004, 11:45]
How The Cyber Vandals Zapped Yahoo!
News Typically, you block the single network address that is attacking you," said Longstaff, whose group works with the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon. The National Institute of Standards and Technology warned...
[February 8, 2000, 8:14]
US Warns Of Increased Cybercrime Risks
News In the final three months of last year, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, received nearly 20,000 incident reports from public and private sources, Garcia said. To test the nation's response to a cyberattack, the Department of...
[February 9, 2007, 8:47]
Trojans From China Attacking UK
News But Bob Ayers, former director of the Computer Emergency Response Team for the US Department of Defense and MD of consulting firm Ayers & Associates, was sceptical that the attacks were coming from China.
[June 30, 2005, 15:55]
