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Sendmail flaw tests new security body
News The three organisations that have previously handled the United States government's response to cyberthreats -- the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC), and the National...
[March 4, 2003, 7:36]
Homeland Security bill becomes US law
News Those are the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Defense Department's National Communications System, the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, an Energy Department analysis centre and the Federal...
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
FBI accidentally turns off Web sites
News The apparent error also wiped out the online presence of the FBI's high-tech crime unit, the National Infrastructure Protection Center, at NIPC.gov. The FBI accidentally pulled the plug on its own Web sites on Tuesday morning.
[August 14, 2002, 6:27]
FBI warns of bugs for Christmas
News Just in time for Christmas, the National Infrastructure Protection Center has posted a warning to e-commerce sites to beware of old bugs. The National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC)-- a coordinated effort between the US Department of...
[December 5, 2000, 8:19]
Code Red: Alive again and kicking
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) also projected the worm to be spreading at a rapid clip. Based on our preliminary analysis, we expect to see the activity of this particular worm to compare to the 19 July infection," said...
[August 2, 2001, 9:03]
Security a low priority in Y2K
News Some funds have been earmarked for the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Federal Intrusion Detection Network, and the Scholarship for Service program dubbed "Cyber Corps," but most of the initiatives outlined in the document remain...
[December 27, 2000, 12:15]
Hackers face life sentence
News Formalise the existence of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. The center, which investigates and responds to both physical and virtual threats and attacks on America's critical infrastructure, was created in 1998 by the Department of...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
US government unveils cybersecurity plan
News Clarke had served as National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism during the Clinton administration from May 1998. Howard Schmidt, vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board...
[September 20, 2002, 7:40]
FBI Most Wanted: A computer worm?
News On Saturday, the National Infrastructure Protection Center -- a joint agency created by the FBI and the Department of Justice to pursue cybercrime -- posted an advisory about the computer worm, dubbing it a "self-propagating 911 script.
[April 4, 2000, 9:20]
FBI aims to patch security holes
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and the SysAdmin, Audit, Networking and Security (SANS) Institute, a research and education organisation made up of government, corporate and academic experts, will unveil the initiatives on...
[October 1, 2002, 13:23]
Denial-of-Service: How big is this threat?
News Michael Vatis, director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center, made similar "tip of the iceberg" comments about the DDoS attacks while speaking at the Global Internet Summit in Fairfax, Va, in March.
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Did anti-virus firms' protections fail?
News In the aftermath of the attack, the National Infrastructure Protection Center, a joint agency handling cybercrime investigations, came under fire from Senator Robert Bennet, R-Utah, for being slow on the draw.
[May 9, 2000, 8:45]
Bug alert firm sets new guidelines
News However, while the company has habitually alerted the National Infrastructure Protection Center -- the FBI's cybersecurity task force -- of any flaw that it finds, the guidelines don't require it to tell third-parties about software bugs that...
[December 3, 2002, 8:43]
Hackers strike at Islamic Web sites
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) warned there could be opportunity for significant collateral damage to any computer network and telecommunications infrastructure that does not have current countermeasures in place.
[September 18, 2001, 10:13]
Security clearinghouse under the gun
News To reach IT professionals about patching problems, the company now relies on the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) cybercrime warning capability. We do want critical-infrastructure and system operators to have a chance to take...
[January 30, 2003, 8:05]
Hackers split over vigilante strikes
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) issued an advisory Friday warning companies of increased hacking activity in the name of "patriotism" and of the spread of computer viruses that label infected files with names that relate...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
Bush security drive could include privacy czar
News Maxine Waters, Democrat-California, said she is concerned with the scope of a Homeland Security Department, which would combine 22 agencies including the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and part of the FBI...
[July 11, 2002, 10:08]
FBI in panic over 'new' hacking tool
News All that certainly sounds serious enough to interest the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the cybercrime arm of the FBI. He wrote the program sometime last summer to test intrusion detection software and later gave the code to the...
[March 19, 2001, 8:58]
Cyberterrorism: The real risks
News It would be relatively easy to conduct a cost-free or risk-free attack given the endemic vulnerabilities in our system," said Michael Vatis, director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth University and a former director of...
[August 27, 2002, 11:03]
US secrets order covers Internet
News Under Bush's order, that definition has been expanded to: "vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems, installations, infrastructures, projects, plans or protection services relating to the national security, which includes defense against...
[March 27, 2003, 8:44]
