Archiv: National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC / Netherlands)


09.02.2019 - 12:10 [ Electrospaces.blogspot.com ]

Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police taps the internet

(8.6.2017) Since 2009, regular meetings are held in the Netherlands, in which also officials from the FBI participate. The aim is to cooperate in tracking down and eventually arresting cyber criminals. The Volkskrant‘s front page report is accompanied by an extensive background story, which contains some more worrying details, but is only available in Dutch.

The cooperation with the Russians dates back to September 2007, when the head of THTC attended a conference in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, at which CIA, FBI, Mossad, BND and other agencies were present. The head of THTC was able to create a connection to the FSB and their deputy head of the department for cyber crime, Sergei Mikhailov, became the liaison for the Dutch police and would regularly visit the Netherlands.

27.01.2018 - 06:46 [ Matthijs R. Koot´s notebook ]

Dutch Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU), AIVD-MIVD partnership in practice

(26.2.2015) The February 2015 issue (.pdf, in Dutch) of the Dutch government magazine “Nationale Veiligheid en Crisisbeheersing” contains an article about the Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU). Here is a translation of that article (hyperlinks are mine): (…)

„Another example of network-oriented cooperation is the cyber cooperation between the AIVD, MIVD, the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and the National Police. Under the working title “Cat5″ the partners initiated a pilot for sharing technical and operational information for detecting digital attacks and digital attackers.“