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Current Activity

Joint report on publicly available hacking tools

October 15, 2018

The National Cyber Security Centre has worked with cyber security authorities in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States to produce a report which highlights five publicly available...

Phone scammers claiming to be from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

October 12, 2018

The NCSC is concerned that a cold call telephone scam appears to be using its name to gain access to people’s information.

Mitigation of risks associated with the exploitation of trusted network relationships

October 11, 2018

This Technical Alert (TA) provides information and guidance to assist Managed Service Provider (MSP) customer network and system administrators with the detection of malicious activity on their networks and systems...

Reporting an Incident

If your organisation has encountered or suspects a cyber-security incident, please complete and return the Cyber Security Incident - Report Form. If you require assistance in dealing with the incident, please complete the Cyber Security Incident – Request for Assistance Form.

If required, you can speak with us directly on (04) 498-7654.

Some interesting stats

396 cyber security incidents were recorded by the National Cyber Security Centre in the 12 months to 30 June 2017. This is an average of 33 incidents per month. In the previous 12 months there were 338 cyber security incidents.

The National Cyber Security Centre provided hands-on intensive incident response on 31 occasions in the past financial year to help organisations deal with serious cyber incidents.

The National Cyber Security Centre determined that in the past financial year, 122 cyber incidents involved indicators that had been linked to state-sponsored computer network exploitation groups.

If New Zealand has secrets worth stealing, then they're worth protecting.

Threats to New Zealand's interests do not respect national boundaries.