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Cyberattacks target UK's national infrastructure
News Sustained cyber-espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the Britain's national infrastructure, a UK cyber-defence chief has warned. That was the warning from Mark Oram, head of the threat and information-security...
[October 30, 2008, 6:30]
UK's National Digital Infrastructure 'needs improving'
News The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) told ZDNet UK that the National Digital Infrastructure (NDI) needs to be more reliable, coherent, and diverse. The UK Government agency that promotes the use of ICT in schools has...
[January 23, 2006, 13:10]
TransFonD Brings Romania's National Banking System Into the Electronic Era With IBM Infrastructure Solution
White Papers To compete in the European Union, Romania needed to upgrade its banking IT infrastructure and implement an electronic interbank payment solution. TransFonD) - a private company owned by 27 Romanian banks and the National Bank of Romania - is a...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
National City Re-Architects Information Infrastructure to Support Evolution to a Customer-Centric Enterprise
White Papers National City Corporation is one of the largest financial holding companies in the United States, with core businesses that include corporate and retail banking, mortgage financing and servicing, and consumer finance and asset management.
[October 1, 2009, 1:24]
Government hacker warning is a sign of the times
News The likelihood of a serious security breach in part of the UK critical national infrastructure is still remote but it is becoming increasingly probable due to standardisation of IT systems, according to security experts.
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
Foreign powers are 'main cyberthreat' to UK
News Foreign governments are the primary threat to the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI) because of their hunger for information, according to a government body. The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), which is in...
[November 22, 2005, 17:40]
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]
Government split over mobile threat
News The government organisation that provides security advice to organisations that operate critical national infrastructure has said it is "very concerned" about possible attacks launched using mobile devices.
[April 25, 2008, 13:02]
UK target for 'large number' of cyberattacks
News The government has said it is engaged in tackling ongoing state-sponsored cyberattacks on UK national infrastructure. Lord West said there are several layers of defence on the domestic front, ranging from computer emergency response teams...
[June 17, 2008, 9:47]
BP: Cyberterrorism threat is increasing
News BP has warned of an increasing terrorist threat to the critical national infrastructure. There's always a risk from cyberterrorism, especially to the national critical infrastructure — but there's a question of how real it is," he said.
[June 21, 2007, 11:43]
Government concerned about MySpooler worm
News The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) has issued an alert over the MySpooler worm reported yesterday, which threatens Windows servers with weak passwords for root access to MySQL.
[January 28, 2005, 17:25]
EC wants giant data network
News The European Commission is looking for suppliers to work on a new communications infrastructure covering all national governments and EU institutions across the continent, it has announced. The idea is to build on national and local e-government...
[July 23, 2004, 12:40]
UK under attack from Asian Trojans
News According to the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), hackers in East Asia have developed Trojan horse programs that attempt to steal information from certain parts of the critical national infrastructure (CNI).
[June 16, 2005, 14:50]
NERC gets Aurora slap on the wrist
Blog A major US energy overseer has been boxed around the ears by a US policy maker over its handling of a vulnerability in US critical national infrastructure security. Not only did they propose cybersecurity standards that - according to the GAO and...
[May 28, 2008, 16:49]
Passport chief comments on ID Card security
Blog James Hall, the new CEO of the UK Identity and Passport service, has just said in a web chat that the National Identity Register will be part of the national critical infrastructure and be "securely accredited".
[November 14, 2006, 16:31]
Government tries to secure UK from electronic attack
News The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), which is part of the Home Office, was set up in 1999 to work with both public and private sector organisations to try and ensure the Critical National Infrastructure can withstand...
[July 27, 2004, 17:20]
Nato: Cyber-terrorism danger equal to missile attack
News Anil said the cyberattacks on Estonia last year, which brought down key financial and state systems, had demonstrated how cyber-terrorism could take down national infrastructure with "very serious consequences".
[March 10, 2008, 8:06]
Schneier: Cyber-extortion on the rise
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but gave the caveat that it mainly affects "fringe" industries, such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure organisations.
[January 23, 2008, 16:28]
Swiss link to Echelon follows satellite sale
News Verestar provides infrastructure support for America's National Security Agency (NSA) and Echelon, its international surveillance project. The Swiss military sees the purchase of the satellite stations by the US as a potential threat to national...
[December 12, 2000, 10:40]
MP calls for cybersecurity Tsar
News Mark Pritchard, Conservative MP for The Wrekin, used an adjournment debate last Wednesday to call for more action to address the impact that cybercrime may have on the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI).
[November 28, 2005, 13:30]
