-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch To: Daily Distribution Sent: 2/19/02 6:32 AM Subject: NIPC Daily Report for 19 February 2002 NIPC Daily Report 19 February 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. Food Marketing Institute (FMI) establishes ISAC with FBI. The Food Marketing Institute signed an agreement with the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) on 15 February establishing a public and private sector partnership with the Food Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) led by FMI. ISAC's serve as a voluntary industry contact point for gathering, analyzing and disseminating information between companies and the multi-agency NIPC. The Food Industry ISAC will provide information and analysis that will enable the food industry to report, identify and reduce vulnerabilities to malicious attack. The new ISAC will also help the NIPC identify and assess credible threats, and craft specific warning messages for the industry. (FMI.org, 15 Feb) Worm alert: Alcarys causes alarm. Anti-virus company Symantec warns that a new worm, W32.Alcarys@mm, has the ability to overwrite files and infect Microsoft Word documents. Alcarys carries the subject line: "sounds of sex and other stuffs", and contains four separate attachments. (SIlicon.com, 15 Feb) 802.1X can be toppled 'like set of dominoes.' Security researchers suggest more security shortcomings in the way Wireless LANs are set up. The standard falls short in providing access control, authentication and key management. The systems are vulnerable to session hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks. These conditions point to flaws in the way that 802.1X works in combination with the 802.11 wireless networking kit. (The Register, 15 Feb)
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