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NISCC Wins Gong For Its Fight Against Cybercrime
News The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) got a pat on the back today. NISCC was established in 1999 to work on the physical protection of assets in the UK. The UK government has done that and NISCC has done that.
[October 8, 2004, 14:10]
NISCC Warns On Cisco IP Phone Flaw
News A software flaw that could crash Cisco's IP phones has been discovered, and the networking company has issued a patch to fix the problem. The flaw, which opens the IP phone service up to DoS attacks, was reported by the National Infrastructure...
[May 25, 2005, 10:10]
Government Warns Of IPsec VPN Flaw
News The UK's National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) has issued a serious warning over the safety of IPsec virtual private networks (VPNs). On its Web site, NISCC said a flaw in the IPsec VPN protocol could allow hackers to obtain...
[May 12, 2005, 14:05]
Government Hacker Warning Is A Sign Of The Times
News On Thursday the UK’s National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) issued a statement that 300 government departments and businesses have been the victims of an ongoing series of trojan horse-based attacks from the Far East since...
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
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]
NISSC Warns Over MIME Flaws
News The National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) has released details of hundreds of serious flaws in security products that use the MIME protocol. The firm warned NISCC of 190 attack vectors from 14 core issues with the Multi...
[September 14, 2004, 10:25]
Flaws Found In Cisco, Juniper And IBM Kit
News The National Infrastructure Co-Ordination Centre (NISCC) has published details of a denial-of-service vulnerability that can affect routers' ability to handle TCP traffic. The NISCC Web site stated: "The impact of the ICMP TCP reset vulnerability...
[April 12, 2005, 17:40]
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]
Foreign Powers Are 'main Cyberthreat' To UK
News The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), which is in charge of defending the CNI, claimed on Tuesday the most significant electronic threats to the critical national infrastructure are content-based, targeted, Trojan...
[November 22, 2005, 17:40]
Microsoft Silent Over IP Vulnerability Claims
News The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) published details of this denial-of-service vulnerability earlier this week that affects some routers, firewalls and voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones.
[April 15, 2005, 16:40]
No Electronic 9/11 Here, Says Home Office
News A Home Office spokesperson insisted that this threat is under "constant review" already, with the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) working "around the clock" to assess the threat of attack against the UK's critical...
[April 29, 2005, 14:25]
Schneier On Security
News Roger Cummings [director of NISCC] said on Tuesday there is a danger that the links between criminals and hackers, and hackers and terrorists, will become stronger. So, with the SANS Institute warning that hackers are changing their tactics and...
[November 23, 2005, 12:00]
VPNs At Risk From Security Glitch
News The severity of the problems varies by software vendor, according to an advisory issued jointly by the British National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (NISCC) and the Finnish CERT. In some cases, they could also allow hackers to...
[November 15, 2005, 9:00]
Trojans From China Attacking UK
News Earlier this month the British government's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) claimed that waves of "industrial-strength" Trojan attacks were hitting 300 organisations in the critical national infrastructure (CNI).
[June 30, 2005, 15:55]
TCP Hole Endangers Flow Of Data
News The centre's advisory is based on security research that Watson plans to present at the CanSecWest 2004 conference this week and apparently had been released a day early by the NISCC, according to the conference organiser.
[April 21, 2004, 8:45]
Labour Peer Bangs Cyberterrorism Drum
News The CNI is protected by the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), which carries out threat assessments and issues warnings about security problems. Harris argued that NISCC's current approach is flawed because it can only...
[April 27, 2005, 15:45]
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]
Government Launches Cybersecurity Service
News The site is funded by the Home Office and will use data from the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), which is responsible for monitoring threats to the UK's critical national infrastructure.
[February 24, 2005, 14:00]
Government Creates Network To Fight Hackers
News Speaking to Government Computing News, Peter Burnett, head of information sharing and international strategy at the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) said that the new networks go beyond the capabilities of the existing...
[October 3, 2005, 16:25]
Security Industry Doesn't Want A Cybersecurity Tsar
News We already have the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) — it would be difficult to see (another cybersecurity agency's) remit," said a spokesperson for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.
[November 29, 2005, 17:25]
