Computer Security Weekly, February 1, 1999Fred Cohen, grandfather of virus research, has found an interesting new Microsoft Word macro virus. A Word document (his version is called CALIG.DOC) purports to hold user IDs and passwords to pornographic sites. Behind the scenes, the macro will grab your private PGP key ring and send it to IP address 209.201.88.110. This is related to codebreakers.org, which is registered to a contact in Limburg, Austria, although the technical contact is in area code 517 in the US. (You can check out domain names yourself at http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois.) Another interesting note from Fred:
"I guess Microsoft doesn't want us to use the names of certain countries in our files!" The furor continues over Intel's plan to put serial numbers on the chip. Those promoting the plan are arguing that the numbers would be helpful for Internet commerce. Details can be found at http://www.redherring.com/insider/1999/0... & http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0... Bruce Schneier, crypto maven, has now weighed in with his position on the e-commerce aspect: it won't work. His explanation is at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/commen... An interesting message from RISKS Digest, 20:19:
"If you can't view the picture, it shows a bank ATM, with the screen showing a Windows95 error message. I can't tell what it says, as I am not fluent in Swedish. "The risks here are so obvious it defies rationality as to why this bank decided to do this." You will Undoubtedly hear about the Happy99 virus, because the BBC
has. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tec...
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