-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:51 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 08.13.03 August 12, - Virus forces Maryland Motor Vehicles Administration to close. A computer virus forced the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration to shut all of its offices at noon Tuesday, August 12. The department expected to reopen its offices Wednesday, officials said. "We have closed all of our offices and facilities statewide. So there's no telephone service right now. There's no online service right now. There's no kiosk or express office service," MVA spokeswoman Cheron Wicker said. Drivers who had business with Tuesday deadlines at the MVA were told not to worry. People who needed to renew registrations were told to wait for Wednesday. Wicker said it was too early to tell what damage may have been done. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A49575-2003Aug12?la nguage=printer July 25, General Accounting Office - GAO-03-751: Information Technology: Executive office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines. The Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) of the Department of Justice is responsible for managing information technology (IT) resources for the United States Attorneys' Offices. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which EOUSA has institutionalized key IT management capabilities that are critical to achieving Justice's strategic goal of improving the integrity, security, and efficiency of its IT systems. To strengthen EOUSA's IT management capacity and to increase its chances of effectively leveraging IT to improve its mission performance, GAO recommends that the Attorney General direct the Director of EOUSA to (1) designate institutionalization of each of the IT management disciplines as priorities and (2) develop and implement action plans in each of the four IT disciplines to address the weaknesses that are identified in this report. Source: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-751 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: 445 (microsoft-ds), 135 (epmap), 80 (www), 137 (netbios-ns), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 113 (ident), 139 (netbios-ssn), 25 (smtp), 53 (domain), 0 (---) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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