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SANS/FBI Release Top 20 Security Vulnerabilities

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the lock-them-boxes-down dept.

theBraindonor writes "SANS Institute and the FBI have compiled a listing of the The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. The list is broken down into two groups: Windows Systems and Unix Systems." The list of Unix vulnerabilities is also a list of the network programs I (and presumably many others) use most. It's a good thing there's BugTraq.

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  1. #8 = Internet Explorer. by garcia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    #8 is listed here.

    If you are using IE, your computer is vunerable to numerous security breaches.

    If this is installed on EVERY Windows computer by default, I believe that this should be rated higher than those vunerabilities in applications that are only installed by default on SOME Windows versions (IIS).