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  • British police arrest suspect in Cisco code theft

    British authorities have arrested a man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May, a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed Friday.

  • Security experts play down Cisco leak

    The leak of a significant amount of Cisco Systems' source code for its latest network devices will not result in a large number of discovered vulnerabilities, security experts said Monday.

  • Open-source group plugs three holes

    An open-source group that maintains software for securing communications released a patch on Tuesday to fix several vulnerabilities that were found during a security test by the U.K. government.

  • Net threat overstated, says security researcher

    Widespread reports about a flawed communications protocol making the Internet vulnerable to collapse were overblown, according to the researcher credited with uncovering the security problem.

  • MS group to oversee hack reports

    Microsoft and five security companies announced last week that they would create an organisation to promote the responsible publishing of information about software flaws. Though many of the details have yet to be hammered out, the move marks the beginning of what could be the widespread emergence of ethical rules for security research.

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  • Code to exploit Cisco flaw may pose risk

    Security experts warn that code which could be used to attack and crash Cisco routers has been posted to public mailing lists.

  • New weapons in the war against DoS attacks

    Industry watchdog groups are warning that denial of service attacks are becoming more destructive each year. Learn about some new tools you can add to your arsenal of DoS defenses to help safeguard your enterprise.

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