-----Original Message----- From: information_technology-admin@private [mailto:information_technology-admin@private] On Behalf Of InfraGard Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 6:53 AM To: Information Technology Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 03.29.04 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 _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv
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