-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipc.watch@private] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:00 AM To: Information Technology 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 _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/information_technology
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