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Security Firm to List Additional Threats  06 June 2000 
Source: Currents.net --   - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
The threats listed in the document are just the "tip on the iceberg," Nowland said, warning network administrators not to feel safe simply because they address the 10 concerns outlined by SANS. NETSEC intends next week to release its . . .

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Crackers use search engines to exploit weak sites  05 June 2000 
Source: TheRegister - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
"... With a bit of ingenuity, anyone can skirt basic password authentication and go straight to the goodies on those sites where administrators are foolish enough to post them. If the desired information is contained in a Web page, anyone . . .

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Hacking Away at Government  05 June 2000 
Source: Lexis-Nexis - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
"In the race to get online, network security has been something of an afterthought. But even the most obscure agency can be a target for Internet intruders. .. According to records on Web site defacements kept by attrition.org, a hacking . . .

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IT, Company Execs Add To Security Holes  02 June 2000 
Source: TechWeb - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
The SANS threat list has become the focus this week. "The majority of successful attacks on computer systems via the Internet can be traced to exploitation of one of a small number of security flaws, SANS said. Most . . .

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Hackers' favorite security holes revealed  02 June 2000 
Source: ZDNet - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
More on the recent SANS report. ""Many of the vulnerabilities on that list are well-known vulnerabilities that everyone knows about," said Sean Hernan, team leader for vulnerability handling at the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center at Carnegie . . .

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Allegro-Software-RomPager 2.10 vulnerable to Dos Attack  02 June 2000 
Source: Bugtraq - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
Here is a pretty serious DoS advisory released on Bugtraq. I am not aware of any fixes, yet. We'll keep you posted! "Allegro-Software-RomPager is an http server which is used in network hardware like switches to provide a . . .

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TACACS+ Analysis  01 June 2000 
Source: OpenWall Project - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
TACACS+ is a protocol used to provide access control for routers and network devices created by Cisco. Solar found a buffer overflow and reported it and supplied a patch in the report below. Cisco later responded to . . .

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Nmap 2.53 Released  31 May 2000 
Source: Insecure.org - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
The latest version of nmap, a utility for port scanning networks, has been released. This tool should be in everyone's security arsenal. "The main addition is IP Protocol scan mode (-sO) which tells you what protocols the host . . .

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The Shell Game  31 May 2000 
Source: DevShed [Thanks to Randy Cosby] - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
This article explains the need and rationale for Secure SHell, an encrypted communications channel which functions as a telnet replacement, and also guides you through the process of installing and using SSH on your own system. . . .

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Access denied: Government taking information off the web  31 May 2000 
Source: Federal Computer Week --    - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
When it emerged less than a decade ago, the World Wide Web was quickly embraced as a bright new medium that could help reinvent government and revitalize democracy. But gradually government policy-makers have also seen that the Web has a . . .

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