-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipcwatch@private] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 7:02 AM To: Cyber Threats Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 12/03/02 December 2, IDG.net President signs Cybersecurity bill into law. President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed the Cyber Security Research and Development Act into law, providing $880 million to fund a variety of IT-security based programs. Passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 12 by voice vote, the Act is designed to fund research and workforce training in computer security. The bill had received a unanimous Senate vote Oct. 16. The Act will fund programs designed by the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology to create new cybersecurity research centers, offer grants and scholarships to students pursuing computer security studies, and encourage senior researchers to study the field. The $880 million would be spent over five years. Source: http://www.idg.net/ec?go=1&content_source_id=13&link_id=771271&referer=& sud= 1 December 1, ABC News South Koreans launch cyber attack on U.S. over schoolgirls' deaths. South Korean activists have attacked the White House computer server with electronic mail bombs to protest the acquittal of two U.S. soldiers accused of killing two schoolgirls in a road accident. Meanwhile, four people have been arrested breaking into a U.S. army base and riot police have stopped 300 protesters from marching on the American embassy in Seoul. South Korean hackers and Internet users launched the bombs at the server at 0300 GMT. However, an activist says the cyber attack is "largely ineffective due to an advanced filtering system at the White House". The activist says a second attack will be launched. Some 25 million people, more than half of the South Korean population, have access to the Internet and regularly use email. The attack was led by a coalition of 130 civic groups, which have organized protests since two 14-year-old girls were crushed to death by a 50-tonne military vehicle on their way to a birthday party in June. Source. http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s738547.htm 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); 21(ftp); 4662(???); 25(smtp); 139(netbios-ssn); 445(microsoft-ds); 443(https) 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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