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Computer Emergency Response Team

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Computer Emergency Response Team

Team of engineers based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that issues security advice and helps resolve emergencies on the Internet by providing technical expertise.

In 1996 the US government announced the formation of a national emergency response team.



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The Brazilian Computer Emergency Response Team (NBSO), a nationwide service organization that responds to computer security incident reports and activity related to networks linked to the Brazilian Internet, backs up mi2g claims that for-profit Internet crimes (as opposed to not-for-profit crimes such as those designed to damage computer systems) are on the rise in Brazil.
``The cyber-world and the physical world are now interconnected,'' said Richard Pethia, director of the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
According to the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon, cybercrime will continue to hit "critical infrastructure" industries such as telecommunications, energy, banking, and finance hard.
 
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