Friday, December 14, 2007
Daily Report
• According to the Associated Press two MBTA trolley trains collided Thursday morning in Boston at about 8 a.m. One of the cars derailed upon impact. Nine minor injuries were reported and emergency crews were called. (See item 11)
Information Technology
22. December 13, Computer Weekly – (National) Peer-to-peer botnets pose fresh network threat. Businesses, governments, and internet service providers face dangerous new network disruption and malware attacks from botnets based on peer-to-peer technology (P2P) instead of the more common hierarchical structure. The CEO of Kaspersky Laboratories, the Russian antivirus company that identified the new method, said the new method had already succeeded in strangling internet communications in the Russian cities of Krasnodar and Astrakhan for several weeks. “We do not know who was behind these attacks,” he said. “It may have been a test.” A senior virus analyst at Kaspersky, said the P2P nature of the new botnet meant that each infected machine needed to know only its neighbors. An instruction to activate the botnet could be sent to any of the machines in the network which would then propagate from machine to machine to build an attack. “Not having a central controller makes it very difficult to find the originating machine,” he said, making it difficult to identify all the infected machines and hence to defend against the attack.
Source: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/12/13/228590/peer-to-peerbotnets-pose-fresh-network-threat.htm
Source: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/12/13/228592/hewlett-packardlaptop-owners-warned-of-security-threat.htm
Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9052899&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top
25. December 13, Vnunet.com – (International) People increasingly tracked via their mobile phones. The tracking of people through their mobile phones is set to increase as concerns over personal security outweigh reservations over privacy, according to a new study by Juniper Research. The report on tracking and navigation estimates that revenues from wireless tracking services, both of vehicles and people, in Western Europe are expected to reach nearly $4.8bn by 2012, driven by the need to improve business efficiency and concerns over personal safety. As the controlled use of personal location information becomes more accepted, the tracking of staff, particularly vulnerable workers, will be a strong initial driver in the business sector. By 2012, Juniper Research estimates that there will be more phones being tracked on a regular basis in Western Europe than vehicles, with nearly 21 million phones being tracked.
Source: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2205653/people-tracking-increasedgrowth
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