NIPC Daily Report 12 March 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. DOD Aids first Responder System. As part of an annual program supporting advanced technology projects, the Defense Department is funding development of a system to improve communications among state and local public safety agencies and DOD personnel. The homeland security command and control (HSC2) package is intended to provide a secure, common communications backbone to ensure that emergency workers don't face the radio, telephone and digital communications breakdowns that occurred after the terrorist attacks. (Federal Computer Week, 11 Mar) FAA to order new inspections of some Airbuses. Concerned that visual checks alone might not detect damage, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will issue an order requiring ultrasonic inspections of certain Airbus A300-600 tail sections. The inspections will focus on Airbus aircraft that have previously experienced air turbulence encounters or sudden up-and-down or side-to-side movements caused by rudder movements. Airbus and the FAA are evaluating the maintenance history data for all 91 Airbuses in service in the United States to identify planes that have experienced similar upset or maneuver events as candidates for further ultrasonic inspection. One FedEx Airbus has already been identified. (CNN, 11 Mar) Security flaw could affect all Linux systems. Guardian Digital Inc., a Linux security firm, reports that a buffer overflow in a library common to most Linux systems could cause a serious security hole that allows those systems to be remotely attacked and taken over. The flaw is in a component called zlib, which is used for file decompression in programs like the GNU Compiler Collection development environment, the Mozilla Web browser, and the X11 system used by some Linux installations to draw windows. (IT World, 11 Mar) Court shuts down '.usa' address scam. A US court shut down a Web site that attempted to capitalize on the patriotic fervor that followed the 11 September terrorist attacks by selling fake Internet domain names with suffixes such as ".usa" and ".brit." Defendants in the US and the United Kingdom launched an aggressive e-mail campaign that urged Internet users to link to a Web (http://www.dotusa.com) and reserve addresses such as www.surfin.usa. The web site did not work, the FTC said because, .usa is not recognized by the standards-setting Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and will not work on the Internet. (Reuters, 11 Mar) Feds step up cybercrime battle in Fresno. US Attorney John K. Vincent has formed a computer-crimes section to concentrate on what he calls high technology and intellectual-property offenses. The section will handle crimes such as computer intrusions, virus and worm proliferation, and Internet fraud and telecommunications fraud. It also will prosecute the so-called intellectual property offenses such as copyright and trademark infringement, software piracy, and theft of trade secrets and economic espionage. In Fresno, Assistant US Attorney Jonathan B. Conklin will head the effort, joining Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Sonderby in the Eastern District's Sacramento division. (The Fresno Bee, 11 March)
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