-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipc.watch@private] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:30 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 4/30/03 April 29, Wired Licensed to war drive in New Hampshire. New Hampshire could become the first in the United States to provide legal protection for people who tap into insecure wireless networks. House Bill 495 defines an operator's failure to secure a wireless network as a form of negligence. According to the proposed amendment, "the owner of a wireless computer network shall be responsible for securing such computer network." What's more, if an alleged intruder can prove he gained access to an insecure wireless network believing it was intended to be open, the defendant may be able to get off the hook using an "affirmative defense" provision of the existing law. As a result, some legal experts contend that New Hampshire's proposed amendment to its computer laws could make it harder to throw the book at criminals who take advantage of insecure wireless systems. Source: http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,58651,00.html April 28, The Korea Herald Korea's MIC takes measures to prevent online attacks. The massive Internet shutdown caused by the SQL Slammer computer virus on January25 caused chaos for Korea's 10 million high-speed Internet users. Now, Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has announced that it will take an active role in promoting security countermeasures aimed at creating fast and accurate communication routes where fixing and preventing network attacks will take only a matter of minutes. The MIC plans to create an information security base, develop information security related technology and standardization, and train manpower in the sector. It will build a support center dealing with attacks and security breaches on the Internet that will run 24 hours per day. MIC is also working on introducing rights to request information and investigate the scene of the crime. Other preventative measures involve working and communicating with multiple online businesses and service providers to make sure that each complies with standards in prevention. Source: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/04/28/200304280007. asp April 27, The Associated Press Spread of buggy software raises questions. Last year, a study commissioned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that software errors cost the U.S. economy about $59.5 billion annually. Developers say defects stem from several sources: software complexity, commercial pressure to bring products out quickly, the industry's lack of liability for defects, and poor work methods. Programmers typically spend half their time writing code and the other half looking for errors and fixing them. That approach may have worked in the infancy of computers, when programs were small, says Watts Humphrey, of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. Now, most programs in testing have five to 10 defects per 1,000 lines of code, or up to 10,000 bugs in a million-line program. It would take 50 people a year to find all those bugs, Humphrey says. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45781-2003Apr27.html Internet Security Systems - AlertCon: 1 out of 4 https://gtoc.iss.net/ Last Changed 8 April 2003 Security Focus - ThreatCon: 1 out of 4 www.securityfocus.com Last Changed 18 April 2003 Current Virus and Port Attacks Virus: #1 Virus in USA: WORM_LOVGATE.F 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 (www), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 25 (smtp), 445 (microsoft-ds), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 11310 (---), 41170 (---) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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