-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch To: daily Sent: 1/23/02 5:21 AM Subject: NIPC Daily Report 23 Jan 02 NIPC Daily Report 23 January 2002 The NIPC Watch and Warning Unit compiles this report to inform recipients of issues impacting the integrity and capability of the nation's critical infrastructures. Klez worm updates itself. A new version of the Klez.E (w32.klez.e@mm) worm is spreading via e-mail and the sharing of infected files on networks. Klez.E attempts to disable antivirus software in order to drop an upgraded version of the ElKern virus into infected machines. Anti-virus software vendors consider Klez.E a "minor worm," but it is capable of infecting Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP. (ZDNet, 18 Jan) Intelligence community plans info-sharing endeavor. The intelligence community plans to link its 14 agencies into an information-sharing system. The Intelligence Community System for Information Sharing would allow analysts to draw links among data, and allow users to automatically receive new information relating to their projects as soon as the data is entered. The new system will fully integrate all systems and knowledge in the intelligence community. (Newsbytes, 21 Jan) Survey of US and Canadian banking databases. A survey of 750 database developers in the US and Canada showed that 12% of online corporate databases suffered security breaches in 2001. Banking and financial institutions were the most commonly targeted. Of the developers who reported breaches, 30% described them as computer viruses, 19% as deliberate hackings, 19% cited human error, 7% attributed the problem to an internal software glitch, and 25% answered "other." The survey did not assess losses caused by database security breaches. (Newsbytes, 22 Jan) Hospital hacker to be sentenced. Sentencing will occur April 26 for Michael Logan, the man who plead guilty last Friday to hacking Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) computers and sending 30,000 e-mails to employees and associates of hospital company. CHW, with 42 hospitals, is the largest not-for-profit health care provider in California. Logan could receive one year in prison. He also faces a $100 thousand fine and restitution. (Infosec News, 21 Jan)
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