-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:38 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 7/22/03 July 18, Reuters APEC takes aim at cyber crime, virus writers. Fighting computer hackers, virus writers and other "cyber criminals" will be a key theme of a U.S.-sponsored meeting of Asia-Pacific government officials in Thailand this week, organizers said on Friday. Officials of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will discuss how to develop cybercrime law enforcement units that work closely internationally and a legal framework for prosecuting cyber criminals, the APEC Secretariat in Singapore said. The five-day meeting from on Monday in Bangkok is organized by the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice and hosted by Thailand's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center. APEC's members are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. "The activities of cyber criminals have direct and harmful consequences for the regional economy," APEC Secretariat Executive Director Piamsak Milintachinda said in a statement. APEC lists cybercrime as a misuse of computer systems for illegal actions such as theft, fraud or terror activities. Source: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=31144 25 Internet Security Systems - AlertCon: 2 out of 4 https://gtoc.iss.net/ Last Changed 22 July 2003 Security Focus ThreatCon: 2 out of 4 www.securityfocus.com Last Changed 22 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: 137 (netbios-ns), 80 (www), 445 (microsoft-ds), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 4662 (eDonkey2000), 0 (---), 53 (domain), 2234 (directplay) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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