-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 7:01 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 6/20/03 June 18, The Register Fresh variant to Sobig worm. A new variant in the Sobig series appeared Wednesday. Sobig-D is a little different from its predecessors the Sobig-B (support@private) and Sobig-C (bill@private) worms. Infectious emails sent out by Sobig.D appear to come from admin@private The worm is spreading modestly and causing only a minimal amount of damage. Most vendors rate it as low risk. Although it normally spreads via email, Sobig-D can also spread through network shares. In its more common email form, Sobig-D appears as email with randomized subject lines (such as Re: Documents and Re: Movies) and carries infectious .scr and .pif attachments. Like its predecessors, Sobig-D has a built-in expiration date--in this case July 2. Users should keep their anti-virus software updated. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/31292.html June 17, Associated Press Former Ericsson workers convicted of espionage. An engineer laid off in 2001 from wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for espionage. Afshin Bavand handed secret company documents to Russian intelligence agents last year, an act that could have harmed Sweden's national security, the Stockholm district court said. Two of Bavand's co-workers at Ericsson were convicted of complicity in industrial espionage for gathering some of the information and giving it to Bavand. Prosecutors said Bavand received thousands of dollars as payment for passing thousands of secret documents to the agents. The court said the documents contained "technical information with connection to mobile telephony and fixed telephony as well as to both existing and future systems." Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2003-06-17-ericsson-verdict_x.htm June 16, Government Computer News As threats rise, feds shelter their IT. The threat of cyberattacks on government systems is escalating as computers become ever more interconnected, use of the Internet increases, and attack technology becomes ever more sophisticated and readily available. Integrating security into enterprise architectures has emerged as a major theme, with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pushing agencies to build architectures and use them as tools to improve efficiency and organization. "Agencies have to make sure [security] is in their enterprise architectures, in their business cases, and in their system administration, operations and support practices," said Mark Forman, the OMB's administrator for e-government and IT. Source: http://gcn.com/22_15/news/22412-1.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), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 445 (microsoft-ds), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 7338 (swx), 0 (---), 53 (domain), 25 (smtp) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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