-----Original Message----- From: InfraGard [mailto:infragard@private] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 7:25 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 8/18/03 August 16, Associated Press Microsoft says no major problems from 'Blaster' worm. Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall said the company had not noticed any extraordinary network congestion Saturday, August 16, from attempts by the "blaster" worm to force thousands of infected computers to target the software company's Website and network. The virus-like infection exploits a flaw in most current versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system for personal computers, laptops and server computers. Although Microsoft posted a software patch on July 16, many users failed to download it, leaving them vulnerable. The exploiters of the Microsoft flaw made a mistake. The worm instructed computers to call up an incorrect address for reaching the actual Microsoft Website that houses the software patch. Although Microsoft has long redirected those who visited that incorrect address to the real site, the company disabled the automatic redirection Thursday. That has helped Microsoft's real Web site stay accessible to users, Sundwall said. Source: http://msnbc.com/news/952935.asp?0sl=-32&cp1=1 August 15, New York Times When wireless phones failed, callers turned to land lines. The land-line telephone network generally kept working after the power went out in parts of six states Thursday, August 14, but wireless network operators said their networks were unable to handle the heavy traffic as large numbers of people simultaneously tried to place calls. The lack of electricity or the failure of backup power systems at cellular transmitter stations and traffic switching centers was partly to blame. As became evident in the hours after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the cellular network is not yet fully up to the challenges of public emergencies. One wireless expert said a weakness of the cellular networks was that operators have not adopted software that assigns priorities to various categories of callers. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/technology/15PHON.html?ex=1061954925&e i=1& en=fe59edfeea5bf67b Internet Security Systems AlertCon: 2 out of 4 https://gtoc.iss.net/ Last Changed 18 August 2003 Security Focus ThreatCon: 2 out of 4 www.securityfocus.com Last Changed 18 August 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: 445 (microsoft-ds), 135 (epmap), 80 (www), 137 (netbios-ns), 1434 (ms-sql-m), 113 (ident), 0 (---), 53 (domain), 139 (netbios-ssn), 25 (smtp) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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