-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:51 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 6/03/03 June 02, BBC News E-mail virus uses Bill Gates. A Windows virus, called Sobig-C, is spreading widely across the Internet. It does not harm a computer but forwards itself to any addresses found on the infected computer, using several faked addresses such as bill@private Anti-virus companies have rated Sobig-C as a high risk virus. According to e-mail filtering firm MessageLabs, it was first spotted on May 31 in the U.S. Users should watch for e-mails containing subject lines such as "Re: Movie", "Re: Approved", or "Re: Your application", with the message "Please see the attached file". The worm uses a number of different attachment names including "screensaver.scr", "movie.pif" and "documents.pif". Users are advised to delete any suspect e-mails and to update their anti-virus software. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2956646.stm June 02, CNET News.com Intel fixes Centrino glitch. Chipmaker Intel acknowledged that a software incompatibility may cause problems for people trying to use a Centrino-based notebook with a virtual private network (VPN). According to a bulletin issued this month by VPN software maker Nortel Networks, the issue could cause notebooks to crash and display the Windows blue screen error notice. Intel said it knew about the problem and had issued a fix in a bulletin to PC makers in early March, around the time the Centrino line was unveiled. Intel said the problem is only with software and not inherent in the Centrino chips. Source: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1011743.html May 30, National Journal Homeland Security CIO pushes to consolidate IT procurement. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) chief information officer on Friday outlined the department's new procurement needs for information technology. Speaking via videoconference to people at an Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) briefing in Santa Clara, CA, Steven Cooper defined mission-space assets as those that are used only in the original boundaries of the agencies that comprise the department's five directorates. Enterprise solutions are technology applications that cross agency boundaries-including everything from financial management tools and e-government initiatives to Microsoft Office software and e-mail. "Previously, alerts and warnings were restricted to [agencies]," Cooper said, noting that they are now being repositioned department-wide. "Many things that were once thought of solely in the mission space of one agency or bureau are in fact enterprise solutions." Source: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0503/053003td2.htm May 30, CNET News.com Yahoo issues IM, chat security patches. Yahoo issued on Friday security patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software. When users of the software log on to the IM network or enter a chat room, Yahoo is prompting them to install the patches. In addition, the company posted the patches on its Web site. Buffer overflow attacks in Yahoo IM and Yahoo Chat could lead to a number of problems. Users could be involuntarily logged out of an application, or it could allow the introduction of executable code, allowing a malicious programmer to take control of a user's machine, delete files and otherwise wreak havoc with a victim's computer system. Source: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1011847.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), 445 (microsoft-ds), 139 (netbios-ssn), 113 (ident), 41170 (---), 0 (---), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 53 (domain) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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