-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipcwatch@private] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:33 AM To: Cyber Threats Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 09/06/02 September 4, National Journal's Technology Daily The United States is facing an alarming shortage in skilled workers to protect the nation's critical infrastructures from cyberterrorism and other threats, several homeland security and high-tech experts said Wednesday. "There is going to be more demand ... for people with [information technology] skills," Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, said during a cybersecurity conference in Washington sponsored by the MIS Training Institute. "It is a huge problem we have in this country-not having enough people with adequate skills and training." Source: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0902/090402td2.htm September 5, C|Net Networks E-Cop.net Surveillance said that there has been a surge in cyber-attacks originating from Malaysia over the last quarter. According to data compiled by its regional Global Command Centers (GCCs), which monitor and protect client networks from cyber-attacks, Malaysia was among the top three countries of origination of intrusion attacks. Using a monthly analysis, Malaysia-originated attacks accounted for 20 percent of overall incidents in July, compared to only 5 percent for the month of June,? said Alan See, CEO of e-Cop.net Surveillance. Source: http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=8908 September 5, VNU Business Publishing A rash of attacks on Windows 2000 servers has left Microsoft security experts baffled. The software giant issued a security warning about the attacks, which seem to be based around Trojan horse programs, but unusually the firm has yet to suggest any protective measures. But more recent missives on the firm's website seem to indicate that the attacks are more likely to be the work of hackers rather than passive worm attacks. Microsoft admitted that certain files on machines running Windows 2000 seem to be compromised. Source: http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=8920 September 5, Computer Wire Nominum Inc says a recently discovered flaw in the dominant domain name server on the internet is far more serious than originally thought, and could allow crackers to crash or even take control of any internet-connected application running on Unix, Kevin Murphy writes. "We know for sure we can use this bug to crash any application," said Richard Probst, VP of product management at Nominum, which has released a product that fixes the problem. "And we think we know how to use it to hijack any application, but we haven't seen an exploit yet." Source: http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=8919 _______________________________________________ Cyber_Threats mailing list Cyber_Threats@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/cyber_threats
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