-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipcwatch@private] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 7:27 AM To: Cyber Threats Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 11/13/02 November 12, Associated Press U.S. cracks case of military network hacker. Federal authorities have cracked the case of an international hacker who broke into roughly 100 unclassified U.S. military networks over the past year, officials said. Officials familiar with the investigation declined to identify the hacker, a British citizen, but said he could be indicted as early as Tuesday in federal courts in northern Virginia and New Jersey. Those U.S. court jurisdictions include the Pentagon in Virginia and Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, one of the Army's premier research facilities. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to say whether this person was already in custody, but one official said investigators consider the break-ins the work of a professional rather than a recreational hacker. Source. http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/11/12/hacker.investigation.ap/index.html November 13, The Globe and Mail The chief suspect in what U.S. authorities are calling the largest ever successful hacking effort against American military networks is an unemployed British computer administrator who worked from his home computer. Mr. McKinnon downloaded sensitive, but not classified, information about subjects that included Navy shipbuilding and munitions, investigators said. But there was no evidence that he offered the information to foreign governments or terrorist organizations, Mr. McNulty said. The military hacking took place over 12 months, starting in March 2001, and investigators said they detected the intrusions as early as June. But they did not issue warnings internally about these hacking methods until March 2002, when a Navy memo urgently instructed computer experts to search their systems for the specific hacker tools Mr. McKinnon allegedly used. Source: http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20021113/wha ck11 13/Front/homeBN/breakingnews Virus: #1 Virus in USA: WORM_KLEZ.H, (aka W32/Klez-G, I-Worm.Klez.h, I-Worm.W32/Klez.gen@MM, W32.Klez.H@mm) 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); 21(ftp); 443(https); 4665 (eDonkey P2P Software); 139 (netbios-ssn); 25 (smtp); 445 (microsoft-ds) 27374 (asp); 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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