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    Established analysis houses have been attacked by security professionals who claim the companies don't have the specific expertise required to gain a meaningful insight into security technologies.

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    The reaction to the release of open source forensics software by the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) has been mixed, after the public has had a chance to tinker with it.

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    A simple security flaw in the Windows XP operating system allows attackers with physical access to a Windows XP machine to obtain unrestricted administrator privileges by using the Windows 2000 Recovery Console utility

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