Global health and disaster relief nonprofit AmeriCares has an emergency response team helping in Oklahoma.
Patches have already started to appear from security firms including one from the newly created Zeroday Emergency Response Team (Zert).
As for outside help, World Vision announced Sunday that it "has put its emergency response team in India on standby" to provide relief as requested.
Its Emergency Response Team is closely monitoring the storm, and more than 85 health clinics in five states have been contacted about their medical supply needs.
Other warning networks, such as the Computer Emergency Response Team, do exist but they typically only find out about security problems after a lot of companies have been hit.
He said the coalition government was looking to "move towards the establishment of a UK National CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)", to act as a "focus point for international sharing of technical information".
Iran's computer emergency response team, known as Maher, a branch of the telecommunication ministry, said on Tuesday that it was sharing research information on the virus for the first time ever on its website.
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) says the number of reported attacks is up and attackers have been targeting companies with access to the country's power grid, water filtration facilities and a nuclear facility.
The organizations include the CERT Coordination Center, the Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the European Cyber Crime Center, the Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team, the Australian Federal Police and the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service.
The latter incident, at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, triggered a response from an emergency swat team and more than 100 police officers.
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