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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. Re:Now if only ... by Zebbers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    haha

  2. The top 5 are, by Herkum01 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    1. Windows 95
    2. Windows 98/ME
    3. Windows NT
    4. Windows 2000
    5. Windows XP
    Wait, there are more than 5?
  3. Re:Well, that settles that argument by iabervon · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Actually, my list of 10 would be: IIS, IE, Outlook, Apache, random UNIX services you don't mean to have, sendmail, bind, sshd, plaintext passwords, ftpd. There's only 3 Windows ones, because you can probably break into more Windows boxes than you want to with just those 3. None of the other Windows vulnerabilities matter much, because you can't use them to break into UNIX systems.