-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:02 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 6/13/03 June 13, The Register European Commission reviews infosecurity regime. A set of recommendations for better information security standards in Europe will be debated at an open meeting to be held today in Brussels. The recommendations have been produced by the Network and Information Security (NIS) Focus Group which includes technical experts appointed by the two European standards organizations CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). The group's principal goal was to evaluate existing security standards, and to identify possible gaps in the standards spectrum. Created in July 2002, the group has now completed its final draft report which has been available for public comment since mid-May. Today's meeting will debate the report plus comments received and provide a basis for a consensus on the report and its recommendations. Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner responsible for Enterprise and Information Society, said: "The growth of e-business in Europe and world-wide will be encouraged by the availability of a secure infrastructure." The report is available at the European Standards Web site: http://www.eeurope-standards.org/Docs/E-Security.pdf Source: http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/31159.html June 13, General Accounting Office Geographic Information Systems: Challenges to Effective Data Sharing. The General Accounting Office (GAO) published report GAO-03-874T on June 10 titled "Geographic Information Systems: Challenges to Effective Data Sharing." Geographic information systems (GIS) manipulate, analyze, and graphically present an array of information associated with geographic locations, and have been invaluable to all levels of government. Their usefulness in disaster response was recently demonstrated during the Space Shuttle Columbia recovery effort. GIS provided precise maps and search grids to guide crews to the debris that was strewn across 41 counties in Texas and Louisiana. The federal government has long been attempting to develop an integrated nationwide GIS network. The information available through such a network could significantly enhance decision-making in myriad public-service areas, including emergency response, national security, law enforcement, health care, and the environment. Source: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03874t.pdf June 12, The Register Al-Jazeera hacker charged. Web designer John William Racine, of Norco, CA, has been charged with breaking into DNS servers and rerouting surfers visiting the Web site of Al-Jazeera to a "Let Freedom Ring" patriotic Web site he created. Racine is also accused of intercepting 300 emails sent to the Arab satellite TV network between March 25 and 27. The 24 year-old is out on bail pending a Monday court appearance when he will face charges of unlawful interception of an electronic communication and wire fraud. Prosecutors allege that Racine obtained a password for Al-Jazeera's Web site by posing as a representative of the station in forged requests faxed to Network Solutions, who handed over the vital information without verifying his identity. Source: http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/31161.html Internet Security Systems - AlertCon: 1 out of 4 https://gtoc.iss.net/ Last Changed 10 June 2003 Security Focus ThreatCon: 1 out of 4 www.securityfocus.com Last Changed 11 June 2003 Current Virus and Port Attacks Virus: #1 Virus in USA: WORM_LOVGATE.G 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), 6346 (gnutella-svc), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 445 (microsoft-ds), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 25 (smtp), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 0 (---) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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