[ISN] Interior asked to disconnect office

2002-07-02 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0701/web-int-07-01-02.asp By Megan Lisagor July 1, 2002 Here they go again. Plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit have asked a federal judge to disconnect the Office of Surface Mining from the Internet - for the second time. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth

[ISN] Apache worm barely squirms

2002-07-02 Thread InfoSec News
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-940989.html?tag=fd_top By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 1, 2002, 1:45 PM PT A program designed to infect vulnerable computers running the open-source Apache Web server application apparently hasn't made it very far, security experts said Monday.

Re: [ISN] Government Not Ready for Cyberattacks

2002-07-02 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: Robert G. Ferrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, here we are once again OVERstating the obvious. I can't decide whether the media is just bored, and continues to rewrite the same stupid, non-informing information, or whether these government agencies are as clueless as they appear.

[ISN] New IE spy progie exploits DCOM

2002-07-02 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25977.html By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 02/07/2002 at 06:55 GMT A group of Japanese security enthusiasts has developed a little tool called IE'en which exposes traffic between an IE user and any server he's contacting, including logins and

[ISN] Feds may require all email to be kept by ISP's

2002-07-02 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: kam [EMAIL PROTECTED] It will be interesting to see how this story develops... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56443,00.html Friday, June 28, 2002 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos WASHINGTON - It may sound like a plot device for a futuristic movie, but the federal government may

[ISN] Chalk symbols expose London's wireless points

2002-07-02 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: Aj Effin Reznor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [My favourite part: There are concerns that systems administrators could be at risk from having their networks exposed to the general public. If they think chalk markings are violating their security, they need to look a little further than just