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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 has received reports of significant network degradation and e-mail outages...
[March 29, 1999, 8:59]
FBI Investigating 911 Virus
News According to a NIPC advisory issued Saturday, the 911 virus had a "relatively minor dissemination" limited to the Houston, Texas, area. The NIPC advisory said the virus script was "disseminated" via source computers, which scanned "several thousand...
[April 3, 2000, 8:25]
Middle East Cyberconflict Could Spread, Says FBI
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) warns that the growing catalogue of hacks and counter-hacks targeting Middle Eastern sites may soon spread to targets outside the region. The NIPC does not, however, identify specific sites...
[October 31, 2000, 13:29]
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]
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. Some Internet service providers kept a temporary copy of the correct information, meaning that FBI...
[August 14, 2002, 6:27]
Hacktivists Threaten World Bank Meeting
News The US government's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) said on Monday that those planning physical disruption might also use computer attacks to "enhance the effects of the physical attack or to complicate the response by emergency...
[September 24, 2002, 12:13]
SirCam Worm Snatches FBI Documents
News Upon discovery of the infection, the NIPC worked to contain it but not before a number of documents were sent out. The NIPC, which is in the process of alerting the recipients of the documents to the presence of the worm, subsequently referred the...
[July 26, 2001, 9:23]
FBI Most Wanted: A Computer Worm?
News The NIPC was not available for comment by press time. According to the NIPC, the worm has not had much success in spreading. For the NIPC and the FBI, the worm's worst aspect is that 20 percent of infected computers will dial 911 emergency services...
[April 4, 2000, 9:20]
FBI Criticised For Ignoring Early Code Red Warnings
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) had received earlier reports of a Code Red-like worm that affected a buffer overflow vulnerability in the .htr files of Microsoft IIS 4. It handed over complete logs of the worm's activity...
[September 6, 2001, 13:18]
If You Can't Trust FBI-issue Software...
News Back in December, NIPC Director Michael Vatis said in a statement that the software was "one step further" than its core mission. A central part of the NIPC's mission is to help protect critical computer networks by alerting private industry and...
[February 14, 2000, 10:29]
Denial-of-Service: How Big Is This Threat?
News The NIPC was created by the FBI and US Department of Justice to fight cybercrime. That problem extends to the national infrastructure as well, said NIPC's Vatis: Systems are more interdependent than ever before.
[April 5, 2000, 13:20]
Feds Warn Of New Worm Threat
News Leaves" takes advantage of computers that have been compromised by the illicit installation of the SubSeven system-administration tool, the NIPC stated in the advisory. While the NIPC did not expand on the Leaves worm's capabilities, Gullotto said...
[June 26, 2001, 7:16]
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]
FBI In Panic Over 'new' Hacking Tool
News Even NIPC's announcement itself has the ring of being premature: "The NIPC is still reviewing this information both for accuracy and to determine the level of threat. But there are several points that make NIPC's announcement curious.
[March 19, 2001, 8:58]
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]
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 deal with the NIPC because we have no concerns that they will predisclose...
[January 30, 2003, 8:05]
Did Anti-virus Firms' Protections Fail?
News As for law enforcement, investigations take time, said Deborah Weiermann, spokeswoman for NIPC. There had to be time to dedicate to the virus and to damage and containment, and as soon as there was time to put out warnings, the NIPC did so," she said.
[May 9, 2000, 8:45]
Power Play: Electric Company Hacked
News The intruders gained access to the power company's servers by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's file storage service, said NIPC, which would not name the power company. The intruders used the hacked FTP site to store and play interactive...
[December 15, 2000, 10:18]
Internet Operations Unfazed After Attack Warning
News The warning, issued Monday night by the bureau's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), said that the centre had received "credible, but nonspecific information that wide-scale hacker attacks against US Web sites and Internet service...
[August 7, 2002, 7:41]
