-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipcwatch@private] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 6:36 AM To: Cyber Threats Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/21/02 October 18, Wired News Terror turns real for horror site - as random sites are forced to act as unwilling al-Qaeda content hosts. There was a sudden appearance this week of a message purporting to be from Osama bin Laden, head of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, on Rexer's Clive Barker fan site, which truly spooked the horror film fan. The message that turned up on Rexer's site congratulated the "...Islamic world for the heroic operations of courageous jihad carried out by its pious fighter children in Yemen, against the tanker of the crusaders, and in Kuwait, against the American invasion and occupation forces," and was signed "Osama bin Mohammad bin Laden, your brother." Rexer's site isn't the only one forced to act as an unwilling al-Qaeda content host, according to online antiterrorist activist Andrew Weisburd., who said that takeovers have recently occurred on at least three other sites. Source: http://www.ds-osac.org/edb/cyber/news/story.cfm?KEY=9324 October 18, Federal Computer Week Senate passes cyber R&D funding. The Senate on Oct. 16 passed a bill that will provide more than $900 million over five years to cybersecurity research and development, an investment that is "essential" to ensuring the security of future networks and services, experts said. The full Senate passed the Cyber Security Research and Development Act (S. 2182), which authorizes funding for new research and grants programs through the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Science Foundation. Source: http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1014/web-cyber-10-18-02.asp October 17, The Boston Globe Cyber chief speaks on data network security at MIT. President Bush's point man on computer security says that the nation has a long way to go in securing its data networks but that new federal regulations would be a step in the wrong direction. Richard Clarke, head of the White House Office of Cyber Security, also said the government should modify a controversial law designed to prevent exploitation of software security flaws because it can be used to stifle research to improve computer security. ''We don't want to create the Federal Internet Security Regulatory Agency,'' said Clarke. Clarke wants businesses and government agencies to work together voluntarily on tougher network security standards to protect their computer systems from small-time criminals and international terrorists alike. Source: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/business/Cyber_chief_speaks_on_Data_ne twork_security+.shtml October 17, Reuters Bogus Yahoo email picks up credit card numbers. Yahoo Inc said Thursday that some of its customers had been tricked into giving their credit card numbers to an unaffiliated third party that had posed as Yahoo in a mass e-mail. Yahoo, which has a billing relationship with more than one million customers who pay for such services as expanded e-mail and online matchmaking, sent out its own mass e-mail Thursday morning advising customers not to respond to the bogus request. A company spokeswoman said less than 24 hours had transpired between the time the fraudulent e-mail went out and the time that Yahoo sent out the advisory. Source: http://www.forbes.com/business/newswire/2002/10/17/rtr756849.html Virus: #1 Virus in USA: WORM_KLEZ.H Source: http://wtc.trendmicro.com/wtc/wmap.html, Trend World Micro Virus Tracking Center [Infected Computers, North America, Past 24 hours, #1 in United States] Top 10 Target Ports 80(http); 137 (netbios-ns); 1433(ms-sql-s); 21(ftp); 139(netbios-ssn); 25(smtp); 22(ssh); 445(microsoft-ds); 1080 (socks); 38293 Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Cyber_Threats mailing list Cyber_Threats@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/cyber_threats
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