-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:16 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 6/17/03 June 16, Federal Computer Week 311 service goes rural route. The island of Martha's Vineyard, located about five miles off the Massachusetts coast, went live with a 311 service Monday that would automatically direct nonemergency calls to the local police departments there. "What we have accomplished is not only to be the first 311 center in all of New England, but also be the first rural application of the 311 telephone system," said Sheriff Michael McCormack of Dukes County, which operates the 911 emergency call center for the island. McCormack said the service was needed to lighten the volume of nonemergency calls the emergency dispatch center was handling. A survey showed that 60 percent of the roughly 7,300 calls into its 911 line were of a nonemergency nature, he said. John Cohen, the police chiefs' consultant on the 311 project, said Martha's Vineyard could possibly be the first community in the country to also use technology that automatically routes a residents' calls to their local police department rather than a central location. Source: http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2003/0616/web-mv311-06-16-03.asp June 16, IDG News Service Hacker tips CERT's hand on Linux/PDF flaw. Confidential vulnerability information managed by the CERT Coordination Center has again been leaked to the public. The latest report was posted to a vulnerability discussion list by an individual using the name "hack4life." The latest information concerns a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc.'s PDF (Portable Document Format) readers for Unix and could allow a remote attacker to trick users into executing malicious code on their machines, according to a copy of the leaked vulnerability report. The leaked information was taken from communication sent from CERT to software vendors affected by the PDF problem, according to Jeffrey Carpenter, manager of the CERT Coordination Center. The information appears to be from a vulnerability report submitted to CERT by a Cincinnati security researcher by the name of Martyn Gilmore. Adobe's Acrobat Reader 5.06 and the open-source reader Xpdf 1.01 are affected by the problem, according to the report. Source: http://www.idg.net/ic_1321988_9677_1-5046.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.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), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 0 (---), 25 (smtp), 53 (domain) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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