-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipc.watch@private] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:14 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 5/05/03 May 02, Government Computer News Bug delays Outlook 2003's release. A bug lives on in the latest beta version of Microsoft Outlook 2003 despite two widely publicized fixes. The Inbox bug systematically deletes e-mail messages throughout networked systems that still have Outlook 2002 installed. One workaround proposed by Microsoft involves 21 steps to redirect the location of the cache and change the location of the default profile's Offline Folder File. That didn't work in tests conducted by Government Computer News. Another workaround, which also didn't fix the Outlook bug, is to back up all user data on the server running Microsoft Exchange Server and then delete and recreate the Outlook Profiles. Backup is necessary because this procedure deletes calendar data, e-mails and so on. Microsoft has delayed final product release from early summer to late summer or early fall. Source: http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21990-1.html May 02, Rocky Mountain News Hackers damage Internet radio site. Hackers broke into the Web site of an Internet radio station in Denver, CO that's sponsoring a Denver conference next week aimed at thwarting computer break-ins. The attack is believed to have caused more than $50,000 in damage. Larry Nelson of the w3w3 network, the target of the attack and sponsor of the conference dubbed "Cyber Security Super Bowl," said the hackers got away with up to 1,000 names and e-mail addresses for people attending the conference. The conference will bring together industry and government experts from around the nation to discuss homeland defense and cybersecurity - a growing field that aims to protect computer systems from hackers. Nelson said the FBI and two cybersecurity firms probing the attack plan to use the case as a model to underscore the threat of Internet-based break-ins. Source: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_193 1529 ,00.html May 01, eWEEK Microsoft updates patch for Windows flaw. Microsoft Corp. has released an updated patch for a security vulnerability discovered in Windows NT 4.0 in December. The new update fixes a flaw in the original patch that installed the wrong binaries on multi-processor machines, causing them to crash in some situations. The original vulnerability that the patch was meant to fix affected Windows 2000 and XP as well. But the problem that prompted the release of the new patch only occurs in machines running Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition. The revised bulletin and patch for this flaw are available on the Microsoft Website: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/secur ity/ bulletin/MS02-071.asp. Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1051974,00.asp 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), 139 (netbios-ssn), 41170 (---), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 22321 (wnn6_Tw), 113 (ident) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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