CRIME FW: [Information_technology] Daily News 01/28/03

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    Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 01/28/03
    
    January 27, New York Times
    Crime is soaring in cyberspace. Spurred by a tightening economy, the
    increasing riches flowing through cyberspace and the relative ease of
    such
    crimes, technically skilled thieves and rank-and-file employees are
    stealing
    millions if not billions of dollars a year from businesses in the United
    States and abroad, according to consultants who track cybercrime.
    Thieves
    are not just diverting cash from company bank accounts, these experts
    say.
    They are pilfering valuable information like business development
    strategies, new product specifications or contract bidding plans and
    selling
    the data to competitors. With budgets and personnel stretched thin,
    companies that added many new technologies to their computer systems
    during
    the dot-com build-up now find themselves lacking the resources to secure
    those systems against break-ins. Dollar amounts are difficult to verify
    or
    compare because the definitions of loss vary so broadly. Part of the
    challenge in quantifying the problem is that businesses are often
    reluctant
    to report and publicly discuss electronic theft for fear of attracting
    other
    cyberattacks or at the very least undermining the confidence of their
    customers, suppliers and investors - or inviting the ridicule of their
    competitors. Securities and Exchange Commission rules say companies must
    disclose information that "a reasonable investor needs to know in order
    to
    make an informed decision about an investment." Source:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/27/technology/27ECOM.html
    
    January 24, Associated Press
    White House cybersecurity adviser to resign. Richard A. Clarke, a White
    House adviser, will resign from government soon, people familiar with
    his
    plans said. As the President's Special Advisor for Cyberspace Security
    and
    Chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
    Board,
    the nation's top cybersecurity adviser has focused most recently on
    preventing disruptions to important computer networks from Internet
    attacks.
    Clarke previously led the government's secretive Counterterrorism and
    Security Group, made up of senior officials from the FBI, CIA, Justice
    Department and armed services, who met several times each week to
    discuss
    foreign threats. He is among the country's longest-serving White House
    staffers, hired in 1992 from the State Department to deal with threats
    from
    terrorism and narcotics. A spokesperson, Tiffany Olson, said Clarke
    hasn't
    told White House CIP staff that he plans to leave. Source:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38819-2003Jan 24.html
    
    Virus: #1 Virus in USA: WORM_KLEZ.H 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 1434 (ms-sql-m), 137 (netbios-ns), 1433 (ms-sql-s),
    80
    (http), 53 (domain), 4662 (???), 445 (microsoft-ds), 139 (netbios-ns),
    135
    (???), 8080 (webcache) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html;
    Internet
    Storm Center
    
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