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December 4, 2001

'Goner' worm hitting corporations, individual PCs
A new computer worm named ''Goner'' was spreading
quickly through corporate and personal e-mail
inboxes Tuesday, deleting system files and clogging
networks in what could be the the biggest outbreak
since last year's ``Love Letter'' virus, security
software vendors said. The worm, a virus that
propagates itself to other computers through the
Internet or other networks, is affecting users of
Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook and Outlook Express,
said Ian Hameroff, business manager of security
solutions at Computer Associates International Inc.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/072374.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1694262l.htm
http://www.techtv.com/news/virus/story/0,24195,3363415,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/04/goner.worm/index.html

Goner Worm Goes To Top Of Virus Charts In Just One Day
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172686.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/295

'Goner' worm spreading fast
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100282,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/667238.asp
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48837,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/23186.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/186921p-1809733c.html

Goner is a script kiddie-inspired worm that disables firewalls, antivirus
http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2825281,00.html
"Pentagone" virus still spreading
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8065378.html

Computer Security Advisory Site Suffers Attack
The Web site of the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) is undergoing a distributed denial of service
attack, officials at the federally funded computer
security clearinghouse confirmed today. As a result
of the attack, the CERT.org site was intermittently
unreachable today for many Internet users.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172687.html

Hard-Coded Into E-Mail Hell By BadTrans
You think the handful of BadTrans.B worm-infected
messages you've received are a pain? Imagine
what life is like for Linda Anderson, a Florida
resident who's been getting over 500 BadTrans-
related e-mail daily for the past week. The latest
widespread infectious code to hit the Internet,
BadTrans.B has been particularly unkind to 15
people whose e-mail addresses were programmed
into the worm by its unidentified author.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172673.html

FBI builds cybercrime division
The FBI announced Monday that, as part of its
latest reorganization, the agency is forming
a Cybercrime Division to handle intellectual
property, high-tech and computer crimes. The
new organization shifts 11 existing divisions
into four new units, said spokeswoman Deborah
Weierman.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8055680.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,5100254,00.html

OMB orders agencies to boost spending on computer security
The Office of Management and Budget will require
federal agencies to submit budget plans that include
funds for boosting computer security because the
government has continued to get failing grades in
that area, a key administration official said Tuesday.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1201/120401td1.htm
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/187314p-1812328c.html

Adviser wants Internet users to get free security software.
The president's computer security adviser asked
technology executives Tuesday for a shopping list
of changes, including bundled security software
for high-speed Internet users and a new way to
get software updates on personal computers.
Richard Clarke told software companies that their
responsibility doesn't end when they fix a hole
in their products that could let hackers in.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/033011.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1694088l.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/12/04/attacks-security.htm
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/186883p-1809439c.html
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17563-1.html

U.S. approves new 256-bit encryption standard
The U.S. government has updated its encryption
standard for computer transmissions, replacing
an aging standard first put in place in 1977,
the Commerce Department said Tuesday. When the
new Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES, is
adopted by the government and private businesses,
it should significantly strengthen the privacy and
security of a wide variety of computer transactions,
from cash-machine withdrawals to Internet shopping
to sensitive e-mails.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/076110.htm

Attorney general's task force to study computer terrorism
A state committee is studying protection of computer
systems that are the "central nervous system of
industrial society," Attorney General John Cornyn
said. The Attorney General's State Infrastructure
Protection Advisory Committee will examine protection
of computer systems that oversee telecommunications,
transportation, energy and water systems. It will
work closely with the governor's Task Force on
Homeland Security, Cornyn said.
http://www.reporternews.com/2001/texas/task1129.html

Spam, Porn Costing U.K. Firms $4.6 Billion A Year - ISP
Spam and pornographic e-mail costs British firms
3.2 billion pounds ($4.6 billion) a year, according
to figures compiled by business Internet service
provider (ISP) Star Internet. The research was
conducted in recent months by the ISP to publicize
its partnership with e-mail filtering company
MessageLabs, spokeswoman Helen Desmond told
Newsbytes.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172659.html

Digital Dealers
Sellers of illegal drugs are finding a brand-new
marketplace on the street corners of the information
superhighway.  Webvan. Kozmo. Peapod. Amazon.com.
Fueled by the Internet revolution, companies like
these changed the way many of us shop, letting us
make purchases from our living rooms and have
products delivered to our doors. And though many
of these businesses have disappeared as the economy
has taken a downturn, one segment of the online
delivery industry is booming: drug dealing.
http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/viceonline/story/0,23008,3342926,00.html

California opens first state privacy office
The California Consumer Affairs office says it has
opened the first state agency in the United States
to address consumer privacy. The Office of Privacy
Protection will be chiefly concerned with identity
theft, one of the fastest growing crimes in the
nation, said Consumer Affairs Director Kathleen
Hamilton. Identity theft cases are expected to
mushroom this year, adding 500,000 to 750,000
victims nationwide, according to the Privacy
Rights Clearinghouse.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,5100287,00.html

Identity crisis: Birth records online
People-search and family history Web sites have
come under fire from California lawmakers, residents
and privacy advocates concerned that personal data
available online can be used to aid identity theft.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8055175.html

Banks Learn To Write Readable Privacy Policies
Unless you're the type of person who prefers
to deposit his savings under the mattress,
you likely received at least one lengthy and
indecipherable notice this summer describing
how your bank handles your personal and
financial information. And if you're anything
like most consumers, you probably took one look
at the notice and promptly tossed it into the
trash.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172682.html

Light shed on Novell's darkest security secret
Novell users are finally able to find out why
they needed to apply a patch to fix a GroupWise
security problem deemed so serious the firm
decided to keep it secret. Back in August,
Novell sent an email to GroupWise 5.5
Enhancement Pack and GroupWise 6 users asking
them to apply the Padlock Fix patch to their
servers immediately. It wouldn't tell anybody
why it's needed, lest hackers exploit the
problem on unpatched systems.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23182.html

Ellison donates software for U.S. security
Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison said Tuesday
that he has donated Oracle software to the U.S.
government to create a database for national
security.  After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
Ellison has championed the need for the United States
to create a national standard for identification cards.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8070437.html

Olympics Net Security Is His Game
At least one of the techies in charge of securing
the 2002 Olympic Winter Games' computer network
is having a lot of fun. Despite general security
concerns and fears of attacks directed at the
Olympics computer system, Matt McClung of Salt
Lake City security firm Satel is excited about
a job that would leave many systems administrators
in a catatonic state.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48665,00.html

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