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  • Rain Forest Puppy labels virtualisation "very, very risky"

    A renowned security researcher, known as Rain Forest Puppy (RFP), has branded virtualisation technologies such as VMWare as "very risky" when used in production environments, during his swan-song presentation at Australia's Hack 2003 conference.

  • Hassled to death: Rain Forest Puppy, nerd overlord

    If you think famed security researcher Rain Forest Puppy's (RFP) recent announcement that he's stepping away from the limelight means he's precious, think again -- the guy has just had enough, and the problems he's been confronted with are fairly familiar.

  • 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.

  • Fighting the new electronic war

    Former tank officer Lance Spitzner has another kind of target in his gunsights: the Internet intruder. He is using his military training to catch a different type of enemy: the hacker.

  • EarthLink flaw exposes domains

    A one-two punch of poor security left up to 81,000 domains hosted by Internet service provider EarthLink open to defacement and exploitation for at least a week, ZDNet News learned on Tuesday.

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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.

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