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

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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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