-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipcwatch@private] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 7:25 AM To: Cyber Threats Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/11/02 October 10, Korea Times - MSN Messenger users warned of Internet virus. A leading computer security company yesterday sounded alarm over a new virus spreading fast via MSN Messenger, which has around five million regular users in South Korea. The new worm virus, named BR2002, is capable of plaguing computer users once activated by installing a Trojan Horse program that will provide hackers with remote access to their machines, said Hwang Mi-kyung, a spokeswoman at Ahnlab.com. The Trojan Horse program has the potential to disrupt business and personal use of the Internet, capturing information such as passwords and credit card numbers and sending them back to the author of the virus, Hwang said. She said that by 4 p.m. Wednesday, Ahnlab.com had received 100 reports of infection by the worm virus. The company's security experts at around 2 p.m. first identified the virus on the day. Source: http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=9250 October 10, VNU Business Publications - Hackers start using 'side-channel' attacks. New threat forces cryptography rethink. Side-channel attacks are the next big threat from hackers, according to the head of RSA Labs. Normal attacks on code are conducted by looking at the unencrypted message and the encrypted message and attempt to recover the encryption key. But side-channel attacks look at other information in an attempt to crack the code, such as the time taken to perform an operation and how power consumption changes. Bert Kaliski, head of RSA Labs, told vnunet.com that these methods are forcing the industry to think again. Source: http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=9242 October 9, Reuters - China says viruses infect 80 percent of computers. Viruses have infected at least 80 percent of China's computers, the official China Daily newspaper said on Thursday, highlighting the vulnerability of one of the world's biggest PC and Internet markets. The findings were the result of a six-week survey conducted by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, the newspaper said. "Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this year reported they were free from any virus attack, while last year nearly one in three users said they suffered no computer infections," the newspaper quoted the center's chief engineer, Zhang Jian, as saying. Half of the infected machines had suffered data losses, problems browsing the Web, or other damage, the newspaper said. Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=575&ncid=738&e=5&u=/nm/2002 1010/wr_nm/tech_china_viruses_dc _______________________________________________ Cyber_Threats mailing list Cyber_Threats@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/cyber_threats
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