Hey, folks, we had an outstanding meeting yesterday. Over 80 attended to see SSA Dave Vanzant, FBI Portland, present on the Regional Computer Forensics Lab. Special thanks to him, to Ann Richardson who was there representing Congressman Wu in support of the RCFL, and to Ron Fowler of Structured, who sponsored the meeting venue. Geo -----Original Message----- From: information_technology-admin@private [mailto:information_technology-admin@private] On Behalf Of InfraGard Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:39 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 12/03/03 December 01, eWEEK - Researchers find serious vulnerability in Linux kernel. Security professionals took note of a critical new vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could enable an attacker to gain root access to a vulnerable machine and take complete control of it. An unknown hacker recently used this weakness to compromise several of the Debian Project's servers, which led to the discovery of the new vulnerability. This discovery has broad implications for the Linux community. Because the flaw is in the Linux kernel itself, the problem affects virtually every distribution of the operating system and several vendors have confirmed that their products are vulnerable. The vulnerability is in all releases of the kernel from Version 2.4.0 through 2.5.69, but has been fixed in Releases 2.4.23-pre7 and 2.6.0-test6. RedHat Inc. and the Debian Project have both released advisories warning customers of the issue and providing information on fixes. Products from other vendors, including, MandrakeSoft S.A., SuSE Linux AG and Caldera International Inc., are also vulnerable. Source: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1400446,00.asp Internet Alert Dashboard Current Alert Levels AlertCon: 1 out of 4 https://gtoc.iss.net Security Focus ThreatCon: 1 out of 4 http://analyzer.securityfocus.com/ Current Virus and Port Attacks Virus: #1 Virus in the United States: 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), 80 (www), 135 (epmap), 137 (netbios?ns), 1434(ms?sql?m), 17300 (Kuang2TheVirus), 139 (netbios?ssn), 1433 (ms?sql?s), 38293 (NortonAntiVirus), 898 (???) Source: http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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