DAILY BRIEF Number: DOB02-096 Date: 5 July 2002 http://www.ocipep.gc.ca/DOB/DOB02-096_e.html
NEWS Ontario Names Canada's First Anti-Terror Chief Dr. James Young was appointed to the new position of Ontario Commissioner of Public Security yesterday. Dr. Young's duties include ensuring that the province is ready to respond to a terrorist strike, coordinating emergency response with U.S. and federal officials, and completing a survey of Ontario's critical infrastructure. Ontario is the first province in Canada to create such a commissioner. (Source: National Post, 4 July 2002) Click here for the source article Severe Storm Hits New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island New Brunswick was hit by a powerful thunder storm Thursday afternoon. Police are calling it a tornado, but Environment Canada has yet to confirm it. The storm caused damage to physical property but no injuries have been reported. (Source: CBC.ca, 5 July 2002) Click here for the source article Comment: New Brunswick Power says the storm left close to five thousand people without electricity across the northern half of the province. Many power outages were also reported in Prince Edward Island and 72 millimetres of rain caused some flooding. Evacuation in Labrador Continues Uncontrolled fires threatening Northwest River and Sheshatshiu kept two thousand people from returning to their homes last night. Officials say that the fire will be assessed again on Friday morning, but that the state of emergency won't be lifted before then. (Source: CBC.ca, 4 July 2002) Click here for the source article IN BRIEF Two Killed in Attack at Los Angeles Airport A gunman killed two people at the ticket counter of Israeli airline El Al at the Los Angeles airport before being killed by security officers. The FBI maintains that it is too early to call the attack a terrorist act. (Source: CBC.ca, 5 July 2002) Click here for the source article Long-Range Weather Predictions Lack Accuracy A study has shown that Environment Canada's weather forecasts five days into the future were accurate just 13 per cent of the time. This contrasts with same-day forecasting that was 72 per cent accurate. Environment Canada says that forecasting is more accurate now than it was ten years ago. (Source: CBC.ca, 5 July 2002) Click here for the source article Comment: Natural hazards, rather than human threats, have historically caused the greatest amount of damage and disruption to critical infrastructures (CI) in Canada. Severe weather has also necessitated extensive emergency management (EM) responses. More accurate weather forecasting would increase the effectiveness of risk management strategies for CI and EM. Falun Gong Hack Chinese Satellite Broadcasts On June 25, the Falun Gong successfully hacked into satellite television broadcasts in China's Shandong province and transmitted a banner reading 'Falun Gong is good' to local televisions during prime time. (Source: VNUNET.com, 1 July 2002) Click here for the source article CYBER UPDATES See: What's New for the latest Alerts, Advisories and Information Products Threats Symantec reports on Backdoor.Assasin, which is a Trojan horse that allows unauthorized access to the infected computer. This Trojan also attempts to terminate the processes of many executables, including various firewall and antivirus programs. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.assasin.html Vulnerabilities SecurityFocus posts an HP report on a local denial-of-service vulnerability in HP-UX 11.11 DCE Client IPv6. View the "Solution" tab for patch information. http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/5143/discussion/ SecurityFocus provides a report on vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Linux-Mandrake kernel 2.2 and 2.4. Follow the link for upgrade information. http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/4262 SecurityFocus reports on a remote paragraph tag script injection vulnerability in Slashcode 2.2. View the "Solution" tab for upgrade information. http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/5140/discussion/ Tools There are no updates to report at this time. 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