-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipc.watch@private] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 6:55 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 5/02/03 May 01, CNET News.com Lucent CEO tapped for U.S. security. President Bush has enlisted Lucent Technologies' chief executive Patricia Russo as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). The NSTAC, created in 1982 by President Reagan, provides analysis and recommendations to the president regarding policy that affects national security and emergency preparedness tied to telecommunications. The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, exposed the susceptibility of the nation's telecommunications networks, which suffered widespread outages. In the aftermath, the NSTAC's importance swelled in its role to make the telecommunications infrastructure more secure. Russo will be involved with a wide range of policy and technical issues related to telecommunications, infrastructure protection and homeland security. Source: http://news.com.com/2100-1037_3-999204.html April 30, vnunet British law enforcement issues stark cyber-crime warning. The head of the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) of the Great Britain has called on businesses to take cyber-crime more seriously. Detective superintendent Len Hynds told delegates attending the Infosecurity Europe 2003 show that cyber-crime is no different from any other criminal activity and needs to be treated as such. Hynds's remarks came as the NHTCU released the results of a survey on UK cyber-crime. Three quarters of the 150 UK businesses surveyed had suffered some form of high-tech crime. More than one in five companies didn't even conduct regular security audits. Source: http://www.vnunet.com/News/1140559 April 28, National Post (Canada) Ethical hackers uncover system problems. With the proliferation of e-commerce activity, a new breed of hacker has come along: "white hats," or ethical hackers, who dedicate themselves to identifying and exploiting flaws in supposedly impregnable software systems. Interest in hiring white-hat security investigations is on the rise. Some people point to the realities of the world after September 11, 2001, as the reason. "9/11 told us that virtually anything is possible now," says Trevor Townsend, national principal, critical infrastructure protection systems, IBM Global Services, in Ontario, Canada. "There's a new global security posture because terrorists will stop at nothing to achieve their ends...It has changed things for technology as a whole." Source: http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=886020FC-51B0-406F- AB28 -D23C4701E91C 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: JS_NOCLOSE.E 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), 139 (netbios-ssn), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 113 (ident), 41170 (---), 4672 (---) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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