-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch To: Daily Distribution Sent: 12/31/01 5:09 AM Subject: NIPC Daily Report 31 December, 2001 Importance: High Significant Changes and Assessment - Commercial anti-virus vendors are warning about W32.Maldal.D@mm, a mass-mailing worm coded in Visual Basic. W32.Maldal.D@mm uses Microsoft Outlook to spread itself to every listing in the Outlook address book. The worm is detectable, and can be removed. Accordingly, anti-virus vendors rate W32.Maldal.D@mm as a Low-Medium threat. NIPC will continue monitoring W32.Maldal.D@mm, and advise of any significant changes, as necessary. (Multiple sources) General - The Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) will host a series of regional conferences in early 2002 to encourage owners of the nation's critical infrastructure to share the lessons they learned from the 11 September terrorist attacks. Information gathered at the conferences, which is intended to facilitate federal outreach to state and local governments, as well as the private sector, will be used to help the CIAO develop a compendium of best practices should the nation's critical infrastructure come under cyber attack. (National Journal's Technology Daily, 28 December) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has created a new office to centralize the department's homeland security efforts. VA Secretary Anthony Principi approved the creation of the Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness in November after he and other department officials reviewed the results of a six?week study identifying improvements the department could make in its terrorism response plan. The new office, which will oversee VA's readiness and emergency activities, will merge the department's emergency operations center and security and law enforcement office. (Government Executive, 28 December) Computer Associates International, Inc. released its 2001 Top 10 Virus Threat List. The list is based on reports tracked by the company's e-Trust Global Antivirus Research Centers. The threat list, as it appeared in the 27 December edition of Presswire, is as follows: 1. Win32.Badtrans.B 2. Win32.Sircam.137216 3. Win32.Magistr 4. Win32.Badtrans.13312 5. Win32.Magistr.B\; 6. Win32.Hybris.B\; 7. Win95.MTX\; 8. Win32.Nimda.A 9. S.VBSWG.Generic 10. Win32.Goner.A International - The Canadian federal government is considering allowing search warrants issued by foreign courts to be executed in Canada without permission from a Canadian judge. In a move that would test the limits of national sovereignty, Justice Minister Anne McLellan said Canada is eyeing unprecedented international co?operation with foreign countries to deal with cyber crimes that underpin the activities of transnational terrorist and criminal networks. Led by Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay, the cyber crime strategy is expected to be the Canadian federal government's next priority for reforming criminal law. (Associated Press, 30 December) Transportation - On 30 December, Honolulu International Airport was evacuated for two hours when a security screener saw what she believed was a gun in a bag. About 3,500 passengers were affected by the temporary shut down. Passengers were required to clear security checkpoints again before returning to their gates. Allen Agor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said what the screener likely saw was a "threat image projection," a computer?generated image projected at random several times during a screener's shift to test alertness. (Associated Press, 30 December) Please understand that this is for informational purposes only and does not constitute any verification of the information contained in the report nor does this constitute endorsement by the NIPC or the FBI.
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