Daily Report Monday, November 27, 2006

Daily Highlights


Bouncers at some New Jersey bars and nightclubs are using a high−tech identification device to obtain a customer's age as well as personal information on a driver's license such as name, address, and license number as well as physical descriptions such as height, weight, and eye color. (See item 11)
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The Associated Press reports the Bloomington Police Department's bomb squad removed what appeared to be an improvised explosive device from the trunk of a rental car Sunday, November 26, at the Minneapolis−St. Paul International Airport. (See item 12)
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Bloomberg reports two of New York City's commuter railroads will have delays for the next two weeks because a particularly bad season of so−called slippery rail −− caused by wet leaves falling on the rails −− has damaged the wheels of more than 360 rail cars. (See item 13)

Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector

29. November 24, Sophos — New Trojan tricks users with offer of free explicit images. Sophos has warned of a new spam campaign that claims to offer free explicit images and videos, in an attempt to trick users into downloading a malicious Trojan horse. According to Sophos, a Weblink to the Psyme−DL Trojan is being widely circulated within e−mails using a variety of subject lines, invariably containing the words "free" and "porn." The e−mails each contain a single sentence and a link to the malicious file.
Source: http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/11/porn spam.html

30. November 24, Security Focus — IAdware Trojan aims for Macs. On Thursday, November 23, antivirus firm F−Secure published a brief analysis of a proof−of−concept adware program for the Mac OS X that could theoretically hook into any application to run attacker−specified code. The program, dubbed IAdware by F−Secure, could be silently installed in a user's account 10
without requiring administrator rights. The IAdware proof−of−concept code did nothing malicious, but merely opened up a browser each time an application was opened, F−Secure stated.
Source: http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/366

31. November 24, VNUNet — IP Multimedia Subsystem full of gaps: Yankee Group. The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture is suffering from "gaping holes and inadequacies" which are limiting increased adoption and implementation of the communications standard, research has warned. These gaps in the architecture must be addressed by vendors and carriers that have invested in IMS as a unifying communications technology, according to a recently published Yankee Group report. The study noted that the growing interest of carriers in adopting IMS or next−generation architectures is met by increasing challenges. However, it acknowledges that all major carriers and vendors now have IMS in their road maps because it is being recognized as the unifying architecture.
Source: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2169423/ims−plagued−gaping −holes

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