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- DDN Security Bulletin 01 DCA DDN Defense Communications System
- 22 Sep 89 Published by: DDN Security Coordination Center
- (SCC@NIC.DDN.MIL) (800) 235-3155
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
- SECURITY BULLETIN
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- The DDN SECURITY BULLETIN is distributed online by the DDN 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 the SRI-NIC host [26.0.0.73 or
- 10.0.0.51] using login="anonymous" and password="guest". The pathname
- for bulletins is DDN-NEWS:DDN-SECURITY-nn.TXT (where "nn" is the
- bulletin number).
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- DDN SECURITY COORDINATION CENTER OPERATIONAL
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- 1. The Defense Communications Agency has created a facility to help
- the DDN community when security-related situations occur. The
- function of the DDN Security Coordination Center (SCC) is to provide a
- centralized and coordinated capability for the rapid, reliable, and
- secure distribution and coordination of security related information
- between DDN users, operations staff, and system maintenance providers.
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- 2. The Defense Data Network Security Coordination Center is now
- operational.
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- 3. In the past, the unclassified DoD Internet has seen a rash of
- security incidents. Typically, these incidents were due to commonly
- known software weaknesses in UNIX-based host products. In one
- instance, the exposure had had a fix published several weeks before it
- was exploited by a hacker. DARPA and other Agencies established
- Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to report security-related
- problems to vendors and assist in validating/verifying their fixes.
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- 4. But there was no central clearinghouse in place coordinating and
- disseminating security-related fixes to MILNET users. In the past,
- the Network Information Center (NIC) had been pressed into this
- service, and the contractor (SRI) has done an excellent job when
- called upon. But the NIC was never intended to handle such a task.
- Now DCA has funded SCC to be DDN's clearinghouse for host/user
- security problems and fixes and to work with the DDN Network Security
- Officer as needed.
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- 5. The SCC is ready to assist you with network-related host security
- problems. Call (800) 235-3155 (7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time) or
- send e-Mail to SCC@NIC.DDN.MIL. For 24 hour coverage, call the MILNET
- Trouble Desk (800) 451-7413 or AUTOVON 231-1713.
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