CRIME FW: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/31/02

GeorgeH@private

Folks,

We have a mystery presenter for our November CRIME meeting.  Since he will be in town only for the 14th, we will be having our CRIME meeting on Thursday, November 14th, instead of the 2nd Tuesday.  It will be at the same time (10AM) and same location (Verizon) as always, however.  Please heed, note the change on your schedules, and be sure to attend.

Thanks!

Geo

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From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipcwatch@private] 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:57 AM
To: Cyber Threats
Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/31/02

October 29, United Press International
China prevented repeat cyber attack on U.S. The Defense Department was
braced for a new onslaught of cyber attacks from Chinese hackers in May 2002
but they never materialized: the Chinese government asked private hackers
not to repeat the 2001 defacement of U.S. government Web sites, a top
Defense Department official said Tuesday. "We expected another series of
attacks from Chinese hackers, but actually the government of China asked
them not to do that," said Air Force Maj. Gen. John Bradley, deputy
commander of the Pentagon's Joint Task Force on Computer Network Operations,
at an electronic warfare conference Tuesday. "I wouldn't call it
state-sponsored, but state-controlled, I guess," he said at the Annual
Association of Old Crows conference being held in Nashville. The hackers
attacked a handful of government sites last year, emblazoning the Web pages
with a Chinese flag. No serious damage was reported but Web sites were
disabled for a period of time. The concern was serious enough that the FBI's
National Infrastructure Protection Center put out an official warning.
Source: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021029-121924-5101r

October 29, CNET News
CIA warns of Net terror threat. Al-Qaeda is not the only terrorist network
hoping to wreak havoc on the United States through "cyberwarfare," the CIA
says. The CIA has named Sunni extremists, Hezbollah and Aleph--formerly
known as Aum Shinrikyo--as other top threats. "These groups have both the
intentions and the desire to develop some of the cyberskills necessary to
forge an effective cyberattack modus operandi," the CIA said in a report to
the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA's report, which responds to a
list of questions from senators, also says that scientific data posted
online aids terrorists: "Terrorist groups worldwide have ready access to
information on unconventional weapons, including nuclear weapons, via the
Internet." The report, prepared by Stanley Moskowitz, the agency's director
of congressional affairs, states that "Aleph, formerly known as Aum
Shinrikyo, is the terrorist group that places the highest level of
importance on developing cyberskills," and that "these could be applied to
cyberattacks against the U.S. This group identifies itself as a cybercult
and derives millions of dollars a year from computer retailing." The CIA
report, along with two others from the State Department and the Defense
Intelligence Agency, were prepared in March and April but were not made
public by the Senate until this month. Source:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963771.html?tag=cd_mh

Virus: #1 Virus in USA: PE_FUNLOVE.4099
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
137(netbios-ns); 80(http); 1433(ms-sql-s); 139(netbios-ssn); 21(ftp);
445(microsoft-ds); 25(smtp); 27374(asp); 1080(socks); 4665
Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center

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