Red Cross Works to Better Protect Its Networks From Attacks, Scams.

This article reports that information security staffers at the American Red Cross, which was hit by the Zotob worm, are working overtime to try to protect the organization's networks against attacks amid surges in usage of the networks following Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the emergency relief agency has turned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and others for help in preventing the spread of imitation Red Cross Web sites set up by scam artists. Zotob, which took advantage of a hole in the plug-and-play component in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, saturated sections of the Red Cross' networks, making them inaccessible to users for several hours.