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- DDN Security Bulletin 9010 DCA DDN Defense Communications System
- 16 Aug 90 Published by: DDN Security Coordination Center
- (SCC@NIC.DDN.MIL) (800) 235-3155
-
- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
- SECURITY BULLETIN
-
- The DDN SECURITY BULLETIN is distributed by the DDN SCC (Security
- Coordination Center) under DCA contract as a means of communicating
- information on network and host security exposures, fixes, & concerns
- to security & management personnel at DDN facilities. Back issues may
- be obtained via FTP (or Kermit) from NIC.DDN.MIL [192.67.67.20]
- using login="anonymous" and password="guest". The bulletin
- pathname is SCC:DDN-SECURITY-yynn (where "yy" is the year the bulletin
- is issued and "nn" is a bulletin number, e.g. SCC:DDN-SECURITY-9001).
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- Sun Microsystems Customer Warning System Established
-
-
- The below information is an announcement by Sun Microsystems that Sun
- has established a Customer Warning System to handle computer security
- incidents and their prevention. In addition, the announcement
- describes the characteristics of the warning system and the methods
- Sun customers should use to report problems and receive Sun security
- warnings.
-
-
-
- From: Beverly Ulbrich - Product Manager, Software Security
- Jack Collins - Director, Technical Support Services
-
- Subject: Announcing Sun Microsystem's Customer Warning System
- for Security Incident Handling
-
- Date: August 14, 1990
-
-
- In order to best serve our customers' service needs, Sun has established a
- Customer Warning System (CWS) for handling security incidents. This is a
- formal process which includes:
- - Having a well advertised point of contact in Sun for reporting
- security problems.
- - Pro-actively alerting customers of worms, viruses or other security
- holes that could affect their systems.
- - Distributing the patch (and/or work-around) to our customers as
- quickly as possible.
-
- More specifically, the CWS is being set up as follows:
-
- We have created an email address ( security-alert@sun.com ) which will enable
- both internal and external people to have a single place to report security
- problems. We have provided a voice-mail back-up ( (415)-336-7205 ) for the
- cases where sending email is not possible. *ALL* SECURITY HOLES SHOULD BE
- REPORTED TO THIS ALIAS.
-
- We have filled the position of "Security Coordinator" in our Customer Service
- Organization. The Security Coordinator is responsible for manning the email
- and voice mail hotlines and evaluating the security problems. We have a
- Customer Warning System "SWAT Team" in place to address severe security
- incidents. The CWS SWAT Team consists of knowledgeable senior people within
- Sun Corporate who are committed to being available to meet whenever required
- and who are empowered to make all necessary decisions.
-
- We plan on publicizing the CWS bi-monthly to the allsun alias. It will
- also be announced (and supported) by the various Computer Emergency Response
- Teams Sun works with. Please pass this information along to whoever you
- feel is appropriate. Sales Representatives should be certain to send this
- information to all their security-conscious customers!
-
- Customers and Sun Field Offices may send us a "Security Contact" from their
- organizations. This is the person Sun should contact in the case of any
- new security problems. He or she will be sent information on the problem at
- hand, including work-arounds and how and when to obtain fixes. Preferably,
- your Security Contact should be technical. He or she should be your site's
- System Administrator (or System Security Administrator). The information we
- need for the Security Contact from the three geographies for customers is as
- follows:
-
- ---------------------- U.S. Security Contact Information --------------------
-
- Company Name:
- Security Contact's Name:
- Customer Number (from Cullinet):
- Address ID (from Cullinet)*:
-
- Postal address:
- Email address:
- Phone number:
- Fax number:
- Preferred method of contact (from above: 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice):
-
-
- * If there is not an existing Address ID, we need the full address for
- the security contact.
-
-
-
- ----------------- Europe and ICON Security Contact Information ---------
-
- Company Name:
- Security Contact's Name:
- Customer Number:
- Address Id:
- If there is no customer number or Address ID, then we need the following
- information for each customer:
-
- Postal Address:
- Email Address:
- Phone Number:
- Fax Number:
- Preferred method of contact (from above: 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice):
-
-
- --------------- Sun Field Office Security Contact Information ---------------
-
- Office Location:
- Security Contact's Name*:
- Email address:
-
- *One per office
-
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-
- ***** PLEASE SEND THIS INFORMATION TO: *****
-
- security-alert@sun.com
-
- or, if you prefer postal mail:
-
- Brad Powell
- c/o Sun Microsystems
- MTV18-04
- 2550 Garcia Ave.
- Mt. View, CA 94043
-
-
- All questions should be sent to bju@sun.com.
-