Byline: sunita03 Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland launched Monday an in-depth cybersecurity strategy for the nation, supported by a new Computer Emergency Response Team to rival the existing AusCERT.
Summary: Newly formed alliance allows Dubai eGovernment to receive consultancy services in the field of electronic security and offer enhanced eServices Dubai eGovernment has signed today (October 21, 2009) a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UAE Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT), the country's cyber-security coordination center and part of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), at GITEX Technology Week 2009, which is being held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Center (DICE) till October 22, 2009.
Aa Dubai eGovernment has signed today (October 21, 2009) a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UAE Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT), the countryAAEs cyber-security coordination centre and part of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).
The Finnish National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FI), which is working to coordinate remediation of the issue, said in an advisory that the vulnerabilities are related to parsing of XML elements that have unexpected byte values and recursive parentheses.
Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (Bkies), a Vietnamese agency, is a member Asian Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (ACERT) and had been requested by KrCERT (Korean Computer Emergency Response Team) to cooperate in analyzing the malware that was performing DDoS attacks on websites of South Korea and the US.
Inaugurating a conference on Police Cooperation against Cyber Crime here, Cabinet Secretary K M Chandersekhar revealed that government has organised a computer emergency response team at a national level.
Forty percent of businesses lack firewalls, 70 percent have no process to deal with information security problems and 85 percent do not have information security policies, the Ministry of Information and Communications' Computer Emergency Response Team said, according to the report.
Forty percent of businesses lack firewalls, 70 percent have no process to deal with information security problems and 85 percent do not have information security policies, the Ministry of Information and Communications' Computer Emergency Response Team said, according to the report.
