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PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News The CPNI was set up last year, incorporating the now-defunct National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) and elements of the intelligence services, including MI5. Gordon Brown presented the government's National Security Strategy... [20 Mar 2008]
Vendors failing to secure applications
News Paller also praised the UK's cyber-defence team - a government organisation called Niscc, which is linked to MI5. Niscc is way ahead of any government in the world in terms of protecting users," he said. [30 Mar 2006]
Chinese hackers breach US military defences
News The UK is also under intelligence-gathering cyber attack from the far east, according to the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC). The government body cannot name the countries concerned as this may "ruin diplomatic efforts... [24 Nov 2005]
'Criminals, not terrorists, pose greatest net threat'
News During this event, NISCC director Roger Cummings claimed that foreign governments are the primary threat to the UK's CNI. Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that talk of cyber terrorism could have a damaging effect on levels of IT security. [24 Nov 2005]
Cisco warns of VPN flaw
News The severity of the problems varies by software vendor, according to an advisory issued jointly by the British National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (Niscc) and the Finnish Cert. In some cases, they could also allow hackers to... [15 Nov 2005]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), which issued the original warning about the Trojans, would only say the attacks were coming from the Far East, admitting it couldn't be sure where they originate. [30 Jun 2005]
Leader: Share your malware knowledge
Leader The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC), which issued the original warning about the Trojans, would only say the attacks were coming from the Far East, admitting it couldn't be sure where they originate. [29 Jun 2005]
Trojans attacking the UK come from China
News Earlier this month the UK 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). [29 Jun 2005]
Update: 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). [16 Jun 2005]
Security flaw found in IPsec VPNs
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 website, NISCC said a flaw in the IPsec VPN protocol could allow hackers to obtain a... [12 May 2005]
'Cyberterrorists poised to attack', warns Labour peer
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 the NISCC's current approach is flawed because it can... [28 Apr 2005]
Microsoft keeps schtum over IP breach allegations
News The UK's National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) earlier this week published details of this denial-of-service vulnerability, which affects some routers, firewalls and voice over IP (VoIP) phones. [15 Apr 2005]
Government to issue public virus alert warnings
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. [24 Feb 2005]
Government issues MySpool alert
News The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) has issued an alert over the MySpool worm, which threatens Windows servers with weak passwords for root access to MySQL. NISCC, which was set up to minimise risk to the UK's critical... [31 Jan 2005]
Opinion: UK needs cybercrime strategy
Comment The campaign is chaired by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and is supported by Dell, eBay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Microsoft, the CSIA (Central Sponsor for Information Assurance) within the Cabinet Office and the NISCC (National Infrastructure Security... [13 Jan 2005]
