FIRST welcomes three new teams (19:21 +0100)

CERT Estonia (CERT-EE) sponsored by SI-CERT and CERT-FI; HSBC Rapid Emergency Action Crisis Team (REACT), USA sponsored by Citi CIRT and Goldman Sachs and Trustwave SpiderLabs CIRT (TWSL-CIRT), USA sponsored by NU-CERT and IBM. Please join us in welcoming the new teams and thanking their sponsors!

ICANN and FIRST are hosting a Joint Cybersecurity Workshop (14:38 +0100)

ICANN and FIRST are hosting a Joint Cybersecurity Workshop titled IMPLEMENTING COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS (CERTS) IN AFRICA on March 5th 2010 in Nairobi. For more details, please visit http://nbo.icann.org/full-sched

FIRST Welcomes Neustar to the Sponsorship Team! (19:16 +0100)

FIRST would like to welcome Neustar to the 2010 Sponsorship Team! Neustar joins us as a Gold Sponsor and will also be exhibiting at the conference. This is Neustar's first time sponsoring the Annual FIRST Conference.

2010 dates for the Corporate Executive Program! (13:45 +0100)

The CEP has released the dates and locations of their next 6 upcoming events. The CEP will hold its Annual 2 day Global Risk Summit at Gleneagles, Scotland this May 5-7, 2010. Four 1 day events will be held throughout the remainder of the year in the UK and the USA. For more event details and information about CEP, please visit www.globalcep.com.

FIRST is accepting theme suggestions for the 23rd Annual FIRST Conference in Vienna in 2011 (19:05 +0100)

This is a great opportunity to participate and be a part of the conference, please send your suggestions to Peter Allor at peter.allor@first.org. The theme winner will receive a complimentary registration to the 2011 conference. Suggestions are due by March 31st and the winner will be announced in April. And mark your calendars for attending the conference. The dates are June 12 to 17, 2011!

New Exhibitors for Miami 2010 (21:55 +0100)

FIRST would like to welcome and thank two new exhibitors to the 22nd Annual FIRST Conference – DHS National Cyber Security Division’s Control Systems Security Program (CSSP) and NetWitness. This will be their first time exhibiting at the Annual FIRST Conference.

FIRST welcomes four new teams in January (23:14 +0100)

CERT BWI (Germany) sponsored by CERTBw (CERT German Armed Forces) and Siemens CERT; Computer Emergency Response Team of the Swiss Government (GovCERT.ch), Switzerland sponsored by CERT-Bund and IP+ CERT; Research In Motion, Corporate Security - Information Security Operations Centre (RIM CS-ISOC), Canada sponsored by TDBFG CSIRT and Bell IPCR; CERT Societe Generale (CERT SG), France sponsored by CERTA and dbCERT.

FIRST has established relationships with both ISO and ITU-T (13:58 +0100)

FIRST has established relationships with both ISO and ITU-T and is active in both organizations. Collective expertise of FIRST members is invaluable contribution to both standardization organizations as it provides an unique practitioners' view to the proposed standards and recommendations. Please view our new pages at http://www.first.org/global/standardisation/ for more information on areas where FIRST contributes to ISO and ITU-T.

CFP Reminder! (19:16 +0100)

We are fast approaching the submission deadline for FIRST2010, "Past the Faded Perimeter: Threat & Incident Response." The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 15th. To submit your presentation for review, please go to https://reg.first.org/papers/Presenter.

Please join us in welcoming new teams and thanking their sponsors (19:16 +0100)

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Computer Incident Response Team (CIBC CIRT), Canada sponsored by RBC FG CSIRT and BMO ISIRT; Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Incidentes Telemáticos (Computer Incident Management National System - VenCERT), Venezuela sponsored by ArCERT and CCN-CERT ; and Lithuanian National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-LT), Lithuania sponsored by LITNET CERT and CERT-FI.

Please join us in welcoming the new team from Raiffeisen Informatik CERT (R-IT CERT), Austria! (19:17 +0100)

Please join us in welcoming the new team from Raiffeisen Informatik CERT (R-IT CERT), Austria! Special thanks to their sponsors SWITCH-CERT and CERT.at. If you’d like to help sponsor a team for membership, please contact the FIRST Secretariat for details at first-sec@first.org!

December TC Program Updated (19:08 +0100)

The program for the FIRST TC in Kuala Lumpur on December 1 & 2 has been updated! Please see details at http://www.first.org/events/colloquia/dec2009/program/ Register today!

Call for Speakers Open! (18:41 +0100)

Program Chair Andrew Cushman has announced the Call for Speakers for the 2010 FIRST Conference in Miami is now open. For more details and important dates please see http://conference.first.org/

Hitachi Joins 2010 Sponsorship Team! (14:41 +0100)

FIRST would like to thank Hitachi for supporting the annual conference. Hitachi has been a sponsor since 2005.

New Member Update! Please join us in welcoming the following new members to FIRST (17:26 +0100)

Effective October 1st: · KIT-CERT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Computer Emergency Response Team), Germany · ECS-CSIRT (Electronic Communications Security, National Intelligence Agency, Government of South Africa) . HR-CERT (Croatian National CERT) · IT-ISAC (Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center), USA FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!

VeriSign signs on as a Gold sponsor for the 2010 conference! (21:28 +0100)

FIRST would like to thank VeriSign for supporting the 2010 Conference! VeriSign joins the sponsorship team at the Gold level. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the conference website for more information.

21st Annual FIRST Conference: Presentation papers & slides available for FIRST Members' Download (20:27 +0100)

FIRST Members might now access what was shown at Kyoto conference, under the theme "Aftermath: Crafts and Lessons of Incident Recovery".

Chinese Security Company Shares Huge Malware Database (20:54 +0100)

A Chinese company that has created a massive database of malware found on Chinese Web sites opened up the information to other security organizations on Thursday.

Global IT Failure Could Cost More than Kobe Quake, FIRST Experts Warned (20:30 +0100)

Sabotage or failure on just one computer system could bring down the world information network in a disaster inflicting more damage than the Kobe earthquake, security experts learned today at their annual conference. They also heard how vulnerable the IT infrastructure is - and how thwarted attacks on the Beijing Olympics showed the determination of cyber criminals.

INTERPOL and FIRST join Hands to Fight Cyber Crime (20:19 +0100)

A law enforcement loophole through which cyber criminals have been escaping started to close today as international police and the world's leading forum of online security experts forged a new alliance.