CRIME FW: [Information_technology] Daily News 03.29.04

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Date: Tue Mar 30 2004 - 17:55:52 PST


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March 26, eWEEK - New spawn of Bagle worm unleashed. Yet another version
of
the Bagle worm is on the loose and is already causing trouble in parts
of
Europe. Bagle.U appeared early Friday, March 26, and has begun spreading
quickly, even though it contains none of the social engineering tricks
that
Bagle's author has used to help previous versions succeed. This variant
arrives in an e?mail with a blank subject line and no body text. The
sending
address, as always, is spoofed, and the name of the infected executable
attachment is completely random. After execution, the worm mails itself
to
all of the addresses in the infected machine's address book. Bagle.U
does
include a backdoor component that listens on TCP port 4751 and connects
to a
Web server in a German domain, www.werde.de, according to Network
Associates
Inc. Once it establishes a connection with the remote server, the worm
generates a unique ID number for each specific infected machine and
sends
that number and the number of the port on which it is listening to the
server. Bagle.U is set to expire on January 1, 2005. Source:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1554957,00.asp

March 26, Reuters - Bush wants cheap high?speed Internet access for all
by
2007. President Bush on Friday, March 26, urged that affordable
high?speed
Internet access known as broadband be available to all Americans by
2007.
Telephone and cable television companies have been competing fiercely to
sign up customers to high?speed Internet service, which is seen as a
lucrative market. There is already a fund that subsidizes telephone
service
in rural areas and for those who cannot afford it. Policymakers have
debated
whether the Universal Service Fund should also subsidize Internet access
to
American homes. They have also been debating what regulations should
apply
to broadband services. Telephone companies that dominate a market have
to
share their networks with rivals for telephone service and there have
been
extensive debates about whether those rules should apply to broadband.
Cable
companies do not presently have to share their networks with rivals but
some
allow subscribers to have an alternative Internet service provider.
There
were about 20.6 million homes and small businesses that subscribe to
high?speed Internet as of June 2003, according to the Federal
Communications
Commission. Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/26/bush.broadband.d
c.reut/index.html

Current Virus and Port Attacks

Virus: #1 Virus in the United States: WORM_NETSKY.P 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), 3127
(mydoom), 137 (netbios?ns), 2745 (urbisnet), 6129 (dameware), 1434
(ms?sql?m), 1433 (ms?sql?s), 139 (netbios?ssn) Source:
http://isc.incidents.org/top10.html; Internet Storm Center


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