The Dutch government has set up a new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to deal with with the growing problem of online crime. The NCSC, which is a public-private partnership, commenced operations on 1 January 2012. Its ambition is to grow, in a phased manner, into the cooperation platform for cyber security in the Netherlands.
Dutch certificate authority Gemnet has taken its site offline following the discovery of a system breach.
Parent company KPN said that the certificate authority had temporarily suspended its web operations following a breach which allow outside attackers to access the Gemnet web server.
The theft of SSL certificates from Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar so undermined trust in the company that it has gone bankrupt.
The Dutch government is trying to minimize the effect of the DigiNotar hack on its IT infrastructure but warned it's a time-consuming process: Not all the SSL certificates can be replaced on the fly.
Piet Hein Donner, minister of the interior, said in a press conference on Tuesday that the government will work as quickly as possible to replace all the DigiNotar SSL certificates in use. However, if the certificates are withdrawn immediately it will be damaging, he warned.
The Dutch secret service has opened an investigation to determine who falsified 531 Internet security certificates in order to snoop on users in Iran, the Dutch Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
"The secret service has opened an investigation," its spokesman Vincent van Steen told AFP, adding "it is specifically to find out who hacked the certificates."
The Dutch government has "taken over operational management" of DigiNotar, the certificate authority (CA) which was breached in July putting hundreds of bogus SSL certificates into circulation.
Fox-IT, the security auditors hired to investigate the compromise of DigiNotar, the digital certificate authority that signed fraudulent certificates for Google, the CIA and others, released their
The Dutch government says it cannot guarantee the security of its own websites, days after the private company it uses to authenticate them admitted it was hacked.
An official also said the government was taking over the company's operations. The announcement affects millions of people who use the Netherlands' government's online services and rely on the authenticator, DigiNotar, to confirm they are visiting the correct sites.
Last week, the Dutch parliament passed a wide-ranging network neutrality bill that attempts to bring the country's largest wireless operator to heel. If it clears the Senate as expected, the Dutch proposal will become the first such law adopted in Europe.
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