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  • Black Hat/ White Hat: RFP's security basics

    The White Hat Hacker, known only as Rain Forest Puppy, explains a litany of security holes in operating systems and applications from Sendmail to Solaris, and tells you what to do to avoid them.

  • Hackers rally behind Cisco flaw finder

    Attendees at the Defcon security event denounce the way Cisco Systems and Internet Security Systems came down on Michael Lynn after he showed that it is possible to hack Cisco routers.

  • New Cisco flaw could pose threat to Net

    A serious flaw in Cisco software puts computer networks at risk of cyberattack and has prompted security vendor Symantec to raise its Internet threat level.

  • Cisco warns customers of site breach

    Cisco Systems' customers received e-mails on Wednesday from the networking company advising them of a security breach of its Web site.

  • Companies mobilise to patch Sendmail

    A critical vulnerability in Sendmail, the Internet's most popular mail-server application, has security experts and software companies moving quickly on Monday to convince customers to apply a patch.

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  • Black Hat/ White Hat: RFP's security basics

    The White Hat Hacker, known only as Rain Forest Puppy, explains a litany of security holes in operating systems and applications from Sendmail to Solaris, and tells you what to do to avoid them.

  • Security: Are you fully armed?

    Security is like an onion: getting to the heart of it makes people cry a lot. But in order to protect your systems, security vendors are now recommending an onion-like multilayered approach.

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