Securing Your Systems Protecting your systems against bad guys
May 23, 2008We'll show you how the lessons learned in the 1980s movie "The Karate Kid" can be applied to securing your systems.
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Nov 28, 2007Reviews of O'Reilly's Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, Prentice Hall's The Official Damn Small Linux Book, and Linux Firewalls: Attack Detection and Response with iptables, psad, and fwsnort from No Starch Press.
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more »Version 2.5 of Gibraltar Security Software Released
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more »Novell Acquires Specialist for Security Management
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more »Singwall Building a Netfilter firewall module
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more »Apache ModSecurity Better protection with Apache’s ModSecurity module
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