[ISN] Working in a network war zone

2002-05-07 Thread InfoSec News
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-900511.html?tag=fd_top By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com May 6, 2002, 4:00 PM PT reporter's notebook - VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Even before the CanSecWest security conference started on Wednesday, unknown hackers had given the hotel's high-speed

[ISN] Army Layers Security Blankets To Guard Networks

2002-05-07 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176400.html By Dawn S Onley, Government Computer News TEMPE, ARIZONA, U.S.A., 06 May 2002, 12:43 PM CST Shortly after a military surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter last April, a two-week cyberwar began, and U.S. Army Web sites took numerous

[ISN] Aging Worms Still Crawl, Threaten Net

2002-05-07 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,98504,00.asp Sam Costello, IDG News Service Monday, May 06, 2002 The Nimda and Code Red worms, which emerged along with dire warnings that they could bring down large sections of the Internet (but didn't), may have a second chance. New data in a study

[ISN] Security Flaw Found in Flash Player

2002-05-07 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,98263,00.asp Sam Costello, IDG News Service Friday, May 03, 2002 A security hole in the way Macromedia's Flash player handles ActiveX content could allow an attacker to run the code of their choice on vulnerable systems, according to a security advisory