Batten the hatches folks... -----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:13 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 7/03/03 July 02, Associated Press Warning of massive hacker attacks. Hackers plan to attack thousands of Web sites Sunday in a loosely coordinated "contest" that could disrupt Internet traffic. Organizers established a Web site, defacers-challenge.com, listing in broken English the rules for hackers who might participate. The Chief Information Officers Council cautioned U.S. agencies and instructed experts to tighten security at federal Web sites. The New York Office of Cyber-Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination warned Internet providers and other organizations that the goal of the hackers was to vandalize 6,000 Web sites in six hours, and urged companies to change default computer passwords, begin monitoring Web site activities more aggressively, remove unnecessary functions from server computers and apply the latest software repairs. The purported "prize" for participating hackers was 500-megabytes of online storage space, which made little sense to computer experts who said hackers capable of breaking into thousands of computers could easily steal that amount of storage on corporate networks. Source: http://www.canoe.com/CNEWS/TechNews/2003/07/02/125244-ap.html July 02, Computerworld World Radiocommunications group OKs new spectrum for WLANs worldwide. Delegates to the International Telecommunication Union's World Radiocommunications Conference 2003 (WRC-03) in Geneva gave final approval Monday to a new global allocation for wireless LANs that operate in the 5-GHz spectrum band, according to John Alden, a spokesman for the U.S. delegation. The U.S. WRC delegation said the decision will harmonize the spectrum available for WLAN use worldwide, "allowing manufacturers to achieve economies of scale and lowering deployment costs for networks--a key advantage for deployment of broadband capabilities in developing countries. The WRC's decision said countries should take "appropriate measures" to restrict use of the 5250-to-5350-MHz bands to indoor use. Member states of the European Union had pushed for this provision because of their concerns that outdoor use in that band could cause interference with aircraft navigation systems. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,82727,00. html Internet Security Systems - AlertCon: 2 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), 445 (microsoft-ds), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 7294 (---), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 9007 (---), 9323 (---) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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