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• Cisco customers have a 'hygiene' problem

  Cisco's customers are not accustomed to regularly updating the operating system on their network hardware, which has left many of them with a 'hygiene' problem when it comes to security, according to Cisco's chief security officer John Stewart.

• ISS: Flaw researcher fairly treated

  Internet Security Systems has hit back at critics who have accused the company of hypocrisy and thuggish behaviour following a former employee's disclosure of a serious vulnerability in Cisco Systems' router operating system.

• AusCERT: update your Cisco router OS now

  The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) is advising all organisations with Cisco routers to update to the latest version of the vendor's operating system after serious vulnerabilities were exposed in the software last week.

• Black Hat with a Vista twist

  Black Hat is not just about breaking and entering this year as Windows Vista and IE7 come under the spotlight.

• Apple security talk cancelled

  Just days before the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a talk on Apple's FileVault encryption system has been abruptly cancelled by its presenter.

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• Bug hunters, software firms in uneasy alliance

  Although many software makers promote responsible disclosure, it isn't universally backed by the security community. Critics say it could make security companies lazy in patching. Full disclosure of flaws is preferred.

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