Today's News: 'Script kiddies' need to get a life

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A newsletter published by TechTarget   September 05, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  VeriSign: Free VeriSign white paper: Guard your network from Internet Fraud >>  SearchWin2000.com: Security Solutions / SearchWin2000.com Product and Vendor Guide  Top News of the Week  >>  BREAKING NEWS: New Windows Server 2003 exam focuses on data center >>  New products, hackers and an Asian threat SPONSORED BY: VeriSign Free white paper: VeriSign's new, flexible and enhanced anti-identity-theft service will immediately enable you to better authenticate the buyers coming into your network; effectively screen order content for fraud patterns; thwart suspicious transactions in real-time; prevent hackers from taking control of your payment structure; employ best practices being used by leading financial institutions to combat fraud, and more. Click here.  Week In Review  'Script kiddies' need to get a life by John Hogan, News Editor Fans of Saturday Night Live may recall a skit a few years back in which host William Shatner urged Trekkies at a convention to move out of their parents' basements and get a life. Maybe hacker-turned-security-consultant Kevin Mitnick can convince amateur hacks to do the same. Let's start with two young men arrested this week on charges of spreading variants of the Lovsan (Blaster) worm. Accused "script kiddie" Jeffrey Lee Parson of Minnesota may have created an unsophisticated version of the harmful worm, but the FBI is surely going to make an example of the 18-year-old. Right now he's probably curled up in a ball wishing he had just played with his Xbox instead. And in Romania, a 24-year-old university student faces up to 15 years in prison after being accused of creating an equally ineffective worm that left an easy-to-follow trail right back to him. Read more of John Hogan's comments on script kiddies and other important news stories of the week. More on this topic: >  MSBlaster suspect dubbed a 'script kiddie' >  Microsoft urged to compensate virus victims >  Asian governments mull Windows alternative >  First Windows Installer 3.0 beta released >  Book review: Kevin Mitnick on the human element of security SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com If you're looking for security solutions, then be sure to visit our new SearchWin2000.com Product and Vendor Guide. This guide covers a wide range of areas for you to thoroughly research including "anti-virus solutions," "network security," "firewalls" and much more. Click here to browse the product and vendor guide.  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   IT Toolbox: Using SUS without Active Directory Looking for an affordable way to keep your user workstations humming with all of those critical security updates and hotfixes? Software Update Services doesn't have all the answers but it's a good solution for the cost -- free -- from Microsoft. Read more in this three-part step-by-step guide. Chapter of the Week: 'PKI-Enabled Services' This chapter from Carlisle Adams' and Steve Lloyd's Understanding PKI, Second Edition looks at the security services that can, in some way, be enabled by a PKI. These are not services inherent in, or fundamental to any PKI, but are services that can build on the core PKI services. Some PKIs may support these auxiliary services and others may not. Enterprise solutions: Many desktops, many patches -- no problem Keeping hundreds of Windows 2000 desktop machines up to date can be an exhausting job, especially given the breadth and variety of updates that have to be checked and applied. Worse, Microsoft keeps many of its updates in disparate locations -- Windows Update, the MDAC site, the security bulletin site and in other places. 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