-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:17 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 7/08/03 July 07, The Register FTC calls privacy claims to account. Most online businesses promise they'll protect customer data as if it were their own. Now the government is holding them to it. United States Federal Trade Commission has indicated its intention to actively pursue companies that obtain personal information by promising a level of security, and then not delivering it. Almost every company that does business in cyberspace has a security and privacy policy, typically buried at the bottom of a home page, under "legal notice" or "privacy policy." The FTC concluded that data that is collected under false pretenses is a "deceptive trade practice." Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31592.html July 03, SecurityFocus Study: Wi-Fi users still don't encrypt. Two days of electronic eavesdropping at the 802.11 Planet Expo in Boston last week sniffed out more evidence that most Wi-Fi users still aren't getting the message. Security vendor AirDefense set up two of its commercial "AirDefense Guard" sensors at opposite corners of the exhibit hall at the Boston World Trade Center, the site of the conference. The company provided attendees with ample notice of the study. "There were huge signs throughout the place saying AirDefense is monitoring all conference traffic." They found that users checking their e-mail through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or another encrypted tunnel. Only three percent of e-mail downloads were encrypted on the first day of the conference, 12 percent on the second day. That means the other 88% could easily be intercepted by eavesdroppers using commonly-available tools, compromising both the e-mail and the user's passwords. Source: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6290 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), 445 (microsoft-ds), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 27020 (---), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 0 (---), 2234 (directplay) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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