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The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Holes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the casey-kasem-is-out-to-lunch dept.

Ant writes: "A little over a year ago, the SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) released a document summarizing the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. Thousands of organizations used that list to prioritize their efforts so they could close the most dangerous holes first. This new list, released on October 1, 2001, updates and expands the Top Ten list. With this new release, we have increased the list to the Top Twenty vulnerabilities, and we have segmented it into three categories: General Vulnerabilities, Windows Vulnerabilities, and Unix Vulnerabilities."

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  1. #21 by smnolde · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being Slashdotted

    1. Re:#21 by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh yes it is! Your site can't be broken into, if nobody can reach it. Being slashdotted is therefore a security -feature-! :)

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  2. Google cache mirror by Doc+Hopper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's Google's cache of the page. It's kind of tough to slashdot google : )
    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:dbJlh35mihk:w ww.sans.org/top20.htm+&hl=en
    Remember, check those links, you don't want to be goatse'd....

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  3. You forgot about this one by Kozz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm surprised to see that this hole didn't make the list.

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    1. Re:You forgot about this one by scrytch · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm surprised to see that this hole [bbspot.com] didn't make the list.

      Or this one [goatse.cx]

      (relax, i didn't actually link it)

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  4. Summary by zpengo · · Score: 3, Funny
    Top Security Vulnerabilities:
    • Clicking "Next" instead of reading.
    • Using passwords from Hackers, et al., for your system accounts.
    • Bragging about how many servers you've got running on your home computer.
    • Setting file permissions to "everyone can execute" because you can't get your Perl scripts to work.
    • Using Microsoft Anything.
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