The plea came as the NIPC issued new warnings that businesses are facing another round of denial of service attacks which wiped millions of share prices earlier this year. We can't issue warnings unless we get information about threats. The best source of information is private companies. Vatis identified the Internet as the greatest IT security threat, and urged companies to place pressure on suppliers to improve the security features of their products.
Manufacturers respond to market demands.
The NIPC has gathered evidence that hackers are planning a denial of service attacks that blighted Amazon and eBay earlier this year, within a matter of months. But Vatis said that businesses had been slow to react to similar warnings in the past. Companies were failing to make use of software posted on the NIPC Web site which detects the tools used by hackers for the denial attacks, he said. The NIPC was set up four years ago to gather intelligence on computer crime, share information with the private sector and to provide training to other law enforcement agencies on computer crime. Com Ltd. Please feel free to pass this on as long as all information and header remains intact.