CRIME FW: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 11/05/02

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Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 08:48:28 PST

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    November 1, The Edge
    U.S. should fund and test Internet security. The U.S. government should fund
    and test Internet Engineering Task Force developments and initiatives to
    bolster the security of Internet communication, including extensions to the
    BGP protocol, a presidential advisor said this week. Internet protocols such
    BGP and Domain Name System (DNS) can be targets of intentional malicious
    activity or sources of instability that compromise the security and
    reliability of the Internet, says Richard Clarke, Special Advisor to the
    President for Cyberspace Security. Indeed, there have been recent instances
    of malicious activity - the Oct. 21 Distributed Denial of Service attacks on
    13 Internet root servers - and Clarke says BGP frequently "flops" massive
    routing tables between ISPs, creating "pockets" of instability. Source.
    http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2002/1101clarke.html
    
    October 31, VNUNET
    Economic warfare enters the cyber-age. Tech-savvy terrorists start using the
    web for sabotage. The Internet could become the latest weapon in the arsenal
    of increasingly technically sophisticated terrorist groups, ushering in a
    new age of economic warfare. Addressing delegates at the Compsec security
    show in London this week, Brian Jenkins, special advisor to the U.S.
    International Chamber of Commerce, warned that terrorists already use the
    Internet to communicate with each other and to obtain and provide
    information and disinformation. They deface or take down sites that hold
    opposing views and may even be reconnoitering network and system
    vulnerabilities via the Internet, he said. The most likely threats are
    shutting down key systems such as air traffic control, and unleashing
    extended denial of service attacks to parts of a critical infrastructure.
    Source: http://www.vnunet.com/News/1136448
    
    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); 25(smtp);
    53(domain); 21(ftp); 515(printer); 135; 22(ssh)
    Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center
    
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