-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:39 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 7/18/03 July 16, IDG News Service New worm poses as Microsoft patch. A new e-mail worm dubbed "Gruel" is beginning to spread on the Internet and over the Kazaa peer-to-peer network, anti-virus company TruSecure is warning users. Gruel is a mass-mailing worm that masquerades as a Windows software patch from Microsoft and as a virus removal tool from Symantec. Like other mass-mailing worms, Gruel spreads by stealing e-mail addresses from an infected computer's Microsoft Outlook address book and mailing copies of itself to those addresses, the company said. The worm deletes files from machines it infects and copies itself into various locations, including folders used by the Kazaa file-sharing network, enabling it to spread on that network as well. Users should keep their anti-virus software updated. Source: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0716kazaaworm.html July 15, Medill News Service Securing cyberspace: a shared duty. Given the quick evolutionary pace of computer technology, any legislation dealing with cyberspace is in danger of being immediately irrelevant. The Homeland Security subcommittee met Tuesday and discussed the race between statute and technology. In the latest in a series of hearings on eradicating cyberthreats, a panel of executives from leading technology companies recommended that the government use its dual roles as regulatory body and customer to help the computer industry set and enforce baseline security standards. The industry would do its part by sharing information with government agencies and educating computer users about the latest online threats and security measures. Most important, consumers would have to use that information and perhaps even overhaul how they approach the Internet. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111579,00.asp Internet Security Systems - AlertCon: 2 out of 4 https://gtoc.iss.net/ Last Changed 17 July 2003 Security Focus ThreatCon: 2 out of 4 www.securityfocus.com Last Changed 17 July 2003 Current Virus and Port Attacks Virus: #1 Virus in USA: WORM_KLEZ.H 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), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 445 (microsoft-ds), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 41170 (---), 0 (---), 25 (smtp), 4662 (eDonkey2000) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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