[ISN] Happy Holidays!

The staff at InfoSec News and C4I.org would like to wish you a very happy holidays and all the best for the new year! All the best for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2004 to you and your loved ones! Cheers! William Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED

[ISN] RE: Hi

://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=138.87.155.2 Its a sneaky virus, so to prevent a repeat of all of this, we're going to post messages for a few days from this address until things calm down a little, just in case you use [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your mail filters. Thanks for your support! William Knowles

[ISN] CodeCon program announced, early registration deadline nearing

Forwarded from: Len Sassaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The program for CodeCon 2004 has been announced. http://www.codecon.org/2004/program.html CodeCon is the premier showcase of active hacker projects. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development

[ISN] UPDATED: FBI raids hacker home in search of stolen Half-Life 2 code

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Jan/gee20040120023508.htm posted 11:55am EST Tue Jan 20 2004 submitted by J. Eric Smith Those wily grunts in the black helicopters are at it again. No, not Microsoft's Secret Service Legion, the somewhat-less-fear-inducing Federal Bureau of Investagation

[ISN] Windows .NET Magazine Security UPDATE--Linux vs. BSD--January 21, 2004

This Issue Sponsored By Exchange Outlook Administrator http://list.winnetmag.com/cgi-bin3/DM/y/eeKY0CJgSH0CBw0BEf10AT 1. In Focus: Linux vs. BSD 2. Announcements - Get 2 Sample Issues of Windows .NET Magazine! - New Web

[ISN] information security trends and patterns for 2003

Forwarded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By studying messages on various information security mailing lists, I've created a visual depiction of INFOSEC community trends over time. You can view my report at: http://www.sharp-ideas.net/research/infosec_zeitgeist.html If you'd like to leave me

[ISN] Trend Micro balks at Reuters hysteria

Forwarded from: Vmyths.com Virus Hysteria Alert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vmyths.com Virus Hysteria Alert {20 January 2004, 19:10 CT} Reuters reporter Jennifer Tan filed a newswire last week to say computer virus attacks cost global businesses an estimated $55 billion in damages in 2003. Her story

[ISN] Secret army unit gets robbed

Forwarded from: Anonymous @ c4i.org http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=a0a06975-6340-4a40-ad00-a731bce04fb5 David Pugliese The Ottawa Citizen January 17, 2004 Canada's commandos may have tested their mettle against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, but they appear to be no

[ISN] Infiltration of files seen as extensive

Forwarded by: Tim Keller tk @ scalefree.net, esteban esteban @ zapata.org Art McGee amcgee @ virtualidentity.org http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/01/22/infiltration_of_files_seen_as_extensive/ By Charlie Savage Globe Staff 1/22/2004 WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of

[ISN] Romanian Court Indicts Accused 'Blaster' Virus Author

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38364-2004Jan22.html The Associated Press Thursday, January 22, 2004 BUCHAREST, Romania -- A Romanian court has indicted a graduate student on charges of distributing a variant of the computer-crippling Blaster Internet virus, authorities said

[ISN] Analysts call for hold on military e-voting

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0119/web-evoting-01-22-04.asp By Michael Hardy Jan. 22, 2004 A group of computer scientists is urging the Defense Department to abandon a plan to let overseas personnel cast absentee ballots over the Internet. The system, called Secure Electronic

[ISN] Students' computers hacked

http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/01/22/400fd304cd30b by Andrew Collins January 22, 2004 Some students coming back from fall study abroad have discovered to their dismay, what others in the University have known for months: Duke computers are under siege from hackers.

[ISN] Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2004-4

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2004-01-15 - 2004-01-22 This week : 56 advisories

[ISN] Linux Security Week - January 26th 2004

+-+ | LinuxSecurity.comWeekly Newsletter | | January 26th, 2004 Volume 5, Number 4n | | | |

[ISN] New worm avoids feds for now

Forwarded from: William Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0126/web-virus-01-27-04.asp BY Rutrell Yasin Jan. 27, 2004 A new mass-mailing computer worm that began rapidly spreading throughout the Internet Jan. 26 apparently avoids targeting the e-mail addresses

[ISN] Viruses and hackers make Windows more secure - Gates

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35145.html By John Leyden Posted: 27/01/2004 Virus writers and hackers are helping Microsoft to develop more secure products, Bill Gates claimed yesterday. Speaking at at the Developing Software for the future Microsoft Platform in London yesterday,

[ISN] A Visit from the FBI

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=215 [If its good enough for the FBI Computer Crime Squad, its good enough for you! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/BU9H40/c4iorg -WK] By Scott Granneman Jan 21 2004 Well, it finally happened. Right before

[ISN] Campus Web site hacked

http://www.idsnews.com/story.php?id=20854 By Michael Zennie January 27, 2004 Five hours after this year's biggest snowstorm had stopped, IU was put under an emergency alert, thanks to a student hacker who manipulated the campus warning Web site. IU spokeswoman Jane Jankowski said the server of

[ISN] SCO offers $250,000 reward for arrest of Mydoom worm author

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,89470,00.html Story by Ken Mingis JANUARY 27, 2004 COMPUTERWORLD The SCO Group Inc. said today it is experiencing a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack apparently related to the Mydoom worm that first appeared yesterday.

[ISN] Wireless Chicago Hackers Have Hijacking Job Appallingly Easy

http://www.eprairie.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterid=6473 [When you read as much security news as I do, you begin to notice little anomalies, such is the case with this article below, it looks suspicisionly similar to an article in Fortune Magazine from 1/26/2004 at...

[ISN] ITL Bulletin for January 2004

Forwarded from: Elizabeth Lennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITL Bulletin for January 2004 COMPUTER SECURITY INCIDENTS: ASSESSING, MANAGING, AND CONTROLLING THE RISKS Shirley Radack, Editor Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology

[ISN] Anti-Virus Companies, Tenacious Spammers

Forwarded from: security curmudgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.attrition.org/security/rant/av-spammers.html Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers Wed Jan 28 04:46:28 EST 2004 Brian Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] No one can argue that the spam problem is getting better. Despite advances in

[ISN] Windows .NET Magazine Security UPDATE--Changing the Administrator Password--January 28, 2004

This Issue Sponsored By Exchange Outlook Administrator http://list.winnetmag.com/cgi-bin3/DM/y/eePq0CJgSH0CBw0BEf10Aw 1. In Focus: Changing the Local Administrator Password 2. Announcements - Need a SQL Server Time-Saver? -

[ISN] Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2004-5

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2004-01-22 - 2004-01-29 This week : 41 advisories

[ISN] U.S. Takes Anti-Virus Role

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58255-2004Jan28.html By Jonathan Krim and Mike Musgrove Washington Post Staff Writers January 29, 2004 The federal government yesterday announced a new, centralized system to alert the country to threats to computer systems, as a virulent worm

[ISN] CFP - ESORICS 2004 - Call for Papers

Forwarded from: Yves Roudier [EMAIL PROTECTED] CALL FOR PAPERS ESORICS 2004 9th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security Institut Eurécom, Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera, France

[ISN] New DHS cyber alert system under fire

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,89550,00.html Story by Dan Verton JANUARY 29, 2004 COMPUTERWORLD WASHINGTON -- The leaders of the security-information-sharing organizations within some of the nation's critical-infrastructure sectors are criticizing the

[ISN] Microsoft offers reward for MyDoom.B leads

http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5150469.html By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 29, 2004 SEATTLE -- Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will offer $250,000 for information leading to the capture and conviction of the individual or group responsible for the release of

[ISN] Net crime gangs hit gambling sites

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNewsstoryID=4237306 By Bernhard Warner European Internet Correspondent 29 January, 2004 LONDON (Reuters) - Organised crime gangs are shaking down Internet betting sites on the eve of American football's Super Bowl, threatening to unleash a

[ISN] MyDoom.B Rapidly Spreading

Forwarded from: Tcat Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.emergencyemail.org/cyber1.asp This information obtained from... The U. S. Department of Homeland Security US Computer Emergency Readiness Team MyDoom.B Rapidly Spreading Mydoom.B is a new variant of the Mydoom worm and is about 29,184

[ISN] Security Maven Calls for Internet 'Disease Control' Agency

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1474670,00.asp By Dennis Fisher January 29, 2004 SEATTLE - The dominance of Windows in the marketplace continues to represent a threat to the safety and security of the Internet and is a problem that must be addressed at the highest levels of government,

[ISN] IT Losing Ground in Virus Battle

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1484760,00.asp By Dennis Fisher February 2, 2004 After years of success deploying more effective and smarter defenses, anti-virus researchers contacted last week in the wake of the MyDoom outbreak acknowledged for one of the first times that the battle may

[ISN] DARPA-funded Linux security hub withers

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35262.html By Kevin Poulsen SecurityFocus Posted: 01/02/2004 Two years after its hopeful launch, a U.S.-backed research project aimed at drawing skilled eyeballs to the thankless task of open-source security auditing is prepared to throw in the towel.

[ISN] Mutating software could predict hacker attacks

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4588 25 January 04 Novel computer viruses and worms can sweep the world within hours, leaving a trail of devastation, because firewalls and antiviral software work by identifying the telltale signatures of known attacks. They are useless

[ISN] UGA students notified of personal info compromise

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-02-01-uga-id-hack_x.htm 2/1/2004 ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The University of Georgia has notified 27,000 students via e-mail that a hacker may have accessed their personal information through a school computer server and plans to alert more

[ISN] CFP - RAID 2004 - Call for Papers

Forwarded from: Yves Roudier [EMAIL PROTECTED] CALL FOR PAPERS RAID 2004 Intrusion Detection and Society Seventh International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection

[ISN] Linux Security Week - February 2nd 2004

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[ISN] InfoSec News List Information

thanks to the following for continued contribution: William Knowles, Will Spencer, Jay Dyson, Emerson Tan, Nicholas Brawn, Felix von Leitner, Robert G. Ferrell, Eric Wolbrom, Brian Martin, Marjorie Simmons, Richard Forno Darren Reed, Robert Slade, Attrition.org

[ISN] MyDoom sparks talks of security's future

http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5152165.html By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 2, 2004 The virus, which has combined many old attack techniques into a successful package, was hardly blunted by antivirus programs during the first few hours of its exponential spread. That's a

[ISN] UK teen escapes jail in nuclear lab hack case

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35280.html By John Leyden Posted: 02/02/2004 A UK teenager who admits breaking into the network of Fermilab, a US high-energy physics research lab has escaped imprisonment. Joseph McElroy, 18, from Woodford Green in East London, was today sentenced to

[ISN] Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaw

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1485698,00.asp By Dennis Fisher February 2, 2004 Microsoft Corp. on Monday finally released a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that lets attackers trick Internet users into visiting malicious sites. The flaw has been public knowledge for some time, but

[ISN] Secret hackers to aid war on internet fraud

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-1063208,00.html April 05, 2004 By Joe Morgan FEARS that small online retailers are the weakest link in the fight against internet fraud have prompted MasterCard, the global payment scheme group, to set up secret teams of hackers to test security

[ISN] Arrests key win for NSA hackers

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040406.gtterror06/BNStory/Technology/ By DAVID AKIN Globe and Mail Update Apr. 6, 2004 A computer hacker who allowed himself to be publicly identified only as ''Mudhen'' once boasted at a Las Vegas conference that he could disable a

[ISN] Auditors working on cyber-risk standard

http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=129851liArticleTypeID=1liCategoryID=2liChannelID=22liFlavourID=1sSearch=nPage=1 by Nick Huber 13 April 2004 Plans by an industry consortium to develop a checklist to assess cyber-threats could help IT directors justify security

[ISN] In cyberwar game, US Army confronts enemies within

http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/newswire/2004/04/21/rtr1341011.html By Eric Auchard Reuters 04.21.04 WEST POINT, N.Y. (Reuters) - The mission: to secure an entire computer network for the United States and its allies against a vague enemy force. Hostile agents aim to wreak havoc

[ISN] DHS, NSA team on cybersecurity

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0426/web-nsa-04-27-04.asp By Frank Tiboni April 27, 2004 The National Security Agency and the Homeland Security Department will work together on educational initiatives to strengthen the country's computer infrastructure. On April 22, officials from NSA

[ISN] Network Card Theft Causes Internet Outage

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1583347,00.asp By Sean Gallagher May 3, 2004 UPDATED: The theft of network cards from a Verizon central office in New York has caused some customers there to lose their Internet access. A handful of corporate customers were left without e-mail and

[ISN] Beijing wages cyberwar against DPP headquarters

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/06/16/2003175231 By Ko Shu-ling STAFF REPORTER June 16, 2004 An army of hackers based in China has broken into Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) databases, stealing classified information such as President Chen Shui-bian's (³¯¤ô«ó) personal

[ISN] PRC surfers hack into DPP Web site

http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2004/06/23/1087958173.htm By Wang Chung-ming 2004-06-23 Taiwan News Staff Reporter Democratic Progressive Party officials yesterday confirmed that hackers, believed to have originated in the People's Republic of China, recently attacked the home page of the

[ISN] Hackers target DND computers, break into network

http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9c7140f5-576f-4c2a-b6dd-d11126882264 By David Pugliese The Ottawa Citizen 2004.07.02 Defence Department employees are being targeted by suspicious e-mails designed to plant viruses and other malicious codes inside military

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