CRIME FW: [Information_technology] Daily News 7/16/03

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    July 14, Arab Times
    Hacker destroys ten Internet sites. A Sudanese hacker claimed to have
    destroyed the Internet websites of 10 major corporations, one of which
    is
    the Sudanese Airlines, Al-Sahafa newspaper said Sunday. The hacker sent
    an
    e-mail to Sudanese Airlines saying that by hacking the company webpage
    he is
    taking revenge for the families of victims of the plane crash that took
    place last Tuesday killing 115 passengers. The hacker claimed to have
    destroyed the websites of Khartoum University, Aptec Computers and the
    Sudanese Internet Company. He said he is working on the destruction of
    more
    websites. Source:
    http://www.ds-osac.org/view.cfm?key=7E445D42465D&type=2B170C1E0A3A0F1628
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    July 14, Reuters
    Program hijacks PCs to send porn ads. Close to 2,000 Windows-based PCs
    with
    high-speed Internet connections have been hijacked by a stealth program
    and
    are being used to send ads for pornography, computer security experts
    warned. It is unknown exactly how the trojan (dubbed "Migmaf" for
    "migrant
    Mafia") is spreading to victim computers around the world, whose owners
    most
    likely have no idea what is happening, said Richard M. Smith, a security
    consultant in Boston. The trojan turns the victim computer into a proxy
    server which serves as a middle man between people clicking on porn
    e-mail
    spam or Web site links, according to Smith. The victim computer acts as
    a
    "front" to the porn Web site, enabling the porn Web servers to hide
    their
    location, Smith said. Broadband Internet users should always use
    firewalls
    to block such stealth activity, he said. Computers with updated
    anti-virus
    software will also be protected, said Lisa Smith of network security
    company
    Network Associate's. Source:
    http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/14/porn.backdoor.reut/index.htm
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    July 11, CNET News.com
    Survey sees tech divide on data disasters. According to a survey
    released
    Monday, only 14 percent of senior business executives felt their
    important
    data is very vulnerable to being lost in the event of a disaster,
    compared
    to 52 percent of senior IT executives. U.S. business and tech leaders
    also
    differ on how long it would take to resume normal business operations if
    a
    disaster struck, according to the survey. Only nine percent of business
    executives say they would need three days or more to resume, compared to
    23
    percent of technology executives. The survey was conducted by RoperASW,
    a
    marketing research and consulting firm, and sponsored by data storage
    company EMC. It polled 274 executives at major U.S. corporations and
    other
    large organizations. Source:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-1025121.html?tag=fd_topCNETNews.com
    
    
    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
    
    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: 80 (www), 137 (netbios-ns), 445 (microsoft-ds),
    1434
    (ms-sql-m), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 0 (---),
    25
    (smtp), 53 (domain)
    Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center
    
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