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Brown Pumps Funds Into Espionage Tech
News I can confirm that, to meet future security needs, we have set aside funds to modernise our interception capability; that, at GCHQ and in the Secret Intelligence Service, we are developing new technical capabilities to root out terrorism; and that...
[March 19, 2008, 17:37]
FBI Urges Greater Co-operation From US Tech Firms
News Created in 1996, InfraGard is an information-sharing alliance between the FBI, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre, universities, state and local police and private companies. Jill Warren, the former assistant attorney general for...
[September 6, 2002, 9:48]
US Names Cybersecurity Head
News Those were the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre, the Defense Department's National Communications System, the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, an Energy Department analysis centre and the Federal...
[September 16, 2003, 9:05]
US Govt To Get Early Warning Of Net Attacks
News Texas Representative Dick Armey, who was House Majority Leader at the time, wrote a letter to then-Attorney General Janet Reno saying: "This new bureaucracy would look for suspicious activity on both government and private computer networks, and...
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
US Homeland Security To Police The Net
News Those are the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre, the Defence Department's National Communications System, the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, an Energy Department analysis centre, and the Federal...
[November 21, 2002, 11:55]
If You Can't Trust FBI-issue Software...
News Last December, the National Infrastructure Protection Centre -- a joint effort between the FBI and the US Department of Justice -- released a utility for Solaris and Linux computers that it claims will detect and eliminate the software agents...
[February 14, 2000, 10:29]
Securing Queensland's Critical Infrastructure: Guidelines For Owners/Operators
White Papers The Queensland Government has been working with the Commonwealth to determine a national approach to counter-terrorism, including the development of consistent, complementary principles regarding the protection and security of critical...
[January 5, 2005, 2:00]
FBI Warns Of Bugs For Christmas
News The National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC)-- a coordinated effort between the US Department of Justice, the FBI, and several other government agencies -- cited "an increase in hacker activity specifically targeting US systems associated...
[December 5, 2000, 8:19]
Code Red: Alive Again And Kicking
News Based on our preliminary analysis, we expect to see the activity of this particular worm to compare to the 19 July infection," said Deborah Weierman, a spokeswoman for government's National Infrastructure Protection Centre.
[August 2, 2001, 9:03]
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]
Election 2005: Time For MPs To Get Behind Tech
News Specifically the document goes on to call for a coherent national strategy which includes a national network for reporting "non-geographic incidents", supported by "cybercaddies" to cover all areas of e-crime from child, consumer and...
[April 27, 2005, 14:00]
Text Of FBI 'Melissa' Warning
News National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) was notified on March 26, 1999, of the proliferation of a computer virus known as the "Melissa Macro Virus" (MMV). The NIPC is a multi-agency organisation whose mission is both a national security...
[March 29, 1999, 8:59]
NISCC Wins Gong For Its Fight Against Cybercrime
News NISCC was established in 1999 to work on the physical protection of assets in the UK. The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) got a pat on the back today. However, the main bulk of its work resides in mitigating risk in...
[October 8, 2004, 14:10]
Government Hacker Warning Is A Sign Of The Times
News Businesses that have been lagging behind in getting the right security protection in place need to sit up and listen to the NISCC's warning. On Thursday the UK’s National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) issued a statement that...
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
Government Split Over Mobile Threat
News The Centre for the Protection of Critical National Infrastructure (CPNI) claims organisations in the UK critical infrastructure, which includes power utility companies, health, and financial services, face possible attacks launched en masse from...
[April 25, 2008, 13:02]
US Considers Jailing Hackers For Life
News The US House of Representatives on Wednesday evening voted 299 to 121 to approve the bill, which would reshape large portions of the federal bureaucracy into a new department combining parts of 22 existing federal agencies, including the Secret...
[November 14, 2002, 15:16]
'Zombie Attacks': Web Crackdown Widens
News The federal investigation involves FBI agents in 17 field offices, said Daniel O'Connor, intelligence operations specialist at the National Infrastructure Protection Centre. Gagnon said representatives from more than 200 companies would be meeting...
[February 21, 2000, 9:06]
Experts Divided Over Cyber-terrorist Threat
News He said he shared information with [the UK Centre for the Protection of Critical National Infrastructure]. If they wanted to create short-term chaos they probably would not be motivated to attack the critical national infrastructure — it would...
[April 9, 2008, 11:19]
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]
Bush Beefs Up Cybercrime Spending
News Cyberspace security is a key element of infrastructure protection because the Internet and other computer systems link many infrastructure sectors," an analysis prepared by the White House said. The Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber...
[February 3, 2004, 9:10]
