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Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 08:25:10 PST

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    November 13, eWEEK - Windows exploits released. Microsoft Corp. released
    its
    monthly passel of patches on Tuesday, November 11, including one for a
    flaw
    in the Workstation service in Windows 2000 and XP. A successful
    exploitation
    would give the attacker complete control of the compromised PC,
    Microsoft
    said. Less than 24 hours after Microsoft issued the fix, two members of
    the
    BugTraq security mailing list posted exploit code for the vulnerability.
    The
    author of one of the exploits said the code had been tested only on a
    Windows 2000 machine with Service Pack 4 installed and the FAT32 file
    system
    running. The other exploit is designed for machines running Windows XP.
    However, experts said it would take little effort to adapt the code for
    other Windows machines. And, more importantly, the Workstation
    vulnerability
    appears to be a prime candidate for a worm. Source:
    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1382271,00.asp
    
    November 13, FCC - FCC makes additional spectrum available for
    unlicensed
    use. In the Report and Order approved Wednesday, November 13, the
    Federal
    Communications Commission (FCC) made available an additional 255
    megahertz
    of spectrum in the 5.470-5.725 GHz band for use by unlicensed National
    Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices, including Radio Local Area
    Networks (RLANs), operating under Part 15 of the FCC's rules. This
    increases
    the spectrum available for use by unlicensed devices in the 5 GHz region
    of
    the spectrum by nearly 80%--and is a significant increase in the
    spectrum
    available for unlicensed devices across the overall radio spectrum. This
    action will also harmonize the spectrum available for these U-NII
    devices
    throughout the world, enabling manufacturers to reduce product
    development
    costs by allowing the same products to be used in many parts of the
    world.
    The Commission also adopted several allocation changes consistent with
    the
    results of the 2003 World Radio Conference and an agreement reached with
    the
    U.S. Department of Defense, the National Telecommunications and
    Information
    Administration (NTIA). These changes will ensure that critical Federal
    Government operations are protected from harmful interference. Source:
    http://www.fcc.gov/
    
    Current Alert Levels
    AlertCon: 2 out of 4
    https://gtoc.iss.net Security Focus
    
    ThreatCon: 2 out of 4
    http://analyzer.securityfocus.com/
    
    Current Virus and Port Attacks
    Virus: #1 Virus in the United States: WORM_LOVGATE.G
    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 135 (epmap), 445 (microsoft?ds), 1434 (ms?sql?m),
    137
    (netbios?ns), 80 (www), 27347 (???), 53 (domain), 4444(CrackDown), 1433
    (ms?sql?s), 139 (netbios?
    
    
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