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more »Customizing PortSentry Do you have a sentry to keep an eye on your servers?
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more »BackTrack Linux 5 R2 Released
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more »Security Lessons: Modified Code Attacks Detecting source code modification attacks
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more »Red Hat Summit and JBoss World: May 3-6
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more »OSSTMM 3.0 Released
Dec 15, 2010The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM) announced the released of the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) 3.0.
more »Security Lessons Plugin Vulnerabilities
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Fedora Unleashes Atomic Desktops
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