SANS Top 20 unveiled
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CIOs and security executives are desperately playing catch-up with unauthorized users of IM and P2P clients, who are sharing music files and videos on company time, and with company resources.
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.
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In a new post on his blog, Christian Wenz mentions the latest results of the SANS Institute's Top 20 Internet Security Attack Targets list which both includes a new entry ("Users") and several mentions of PHP and PHP-related applications.   Of course you can debate how such a Top list came together and what the real value behind that is, but there are two specific points in this year's list that I found quite interesting.   There's two targets for the PHP community to worry about - sysadmin/hosting and things developers need to keep in mind. Items on these lists include:  Always test and deploy patches and new versions of PHP as they are released Use Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems to block/alert on malicious HTTP requests. Consider using Apache's mod_security to block known PHP attacks If you use PHP, migrate your application to PHP 5.2 as a matter of urgency. Encode all output using htmlentities() or a similar mechanism to avoid XSS attacks  You can check out the full information over on the SANS Institute website.
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With new rankings due soon, SGI, IBM and others jostle for bragging rights. Also: Speedy Mac system gets speedier.
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1. Catholic Memorial 2. BC High 3. Reading 4. Waltham 5. Austin Prep 6. Central Catholic 7. Needham 8. Winchester 9. Framingham 10. Woburn 11. Malden Catholic 12. Hingham 13. Duxbury 14. St. John's Prep 15. Westford Academy 16. Arlington 17. Coyle-Casidy 18. Xaverian 19. Weymouth 20. Lynnfield
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ANTI VIRAL firm Sophos released its monthly figures for the top viral attacks detected during October. And out of the top 10 threats to peace, quiet, and to Windows operating systems, different variants of the Netsky pesky took six out of the 10 placings.
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five new HS20 models and one new JS20 blade server. The company also is rolling out new features designed to improve the performance of BladeCenter systems.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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First the company, now for the customer SANs Brocade has introduced its first Fibre Channel switch that can be used within both Brocade and McDATA SANs.â¦
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Plus, a look at the complete Foolish 8 list.
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Fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required. This release adds the final missing pieces to the new parser code.  MBX files and Content-Length headers are now supported.  Database cleanup when signals are caught has also been improved.  I would like to move 1.1 into the stable branch fairly soon so if folks would test out this release and report any problems it would be a big help!   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61201&package_id=73566
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LYNNFIELD, Mass., Nov. 1 - NetSky-P and Zafi-B were the top two viruses in circulation in October, security company Sophos says in its monthly top-10 viruses and hoaxes lists.
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The Fibre Channel backbone links disparate SANs throughout the DoD and increases security and resiliency while lowering costs. It's vendor is claiming the is among the largest ever built.
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Download our report here Executive briefing It has been a long struggle, but with IP-based SANs finally achieving parity of sorts with Fibre Channel SANs, 2007 could at last be "The Year of iSCSI".â¦
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Lindsay Davenport will take over the world number one spot from Amelie Mauresmo when the rankings are released next week after brushing aside Dinara Safina 6-4
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A music video by the late Johnny Cash is number one in a top 20 list compiled by music insiders and artists.
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Rules for the Hatrrick contest.