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This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include "Mitigating the Effects of a DDoS Attack," "," and "The Perfect Attack Against Your Security."


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    Review: Practical Packet Analysis - In the introduction, McIlwraith points out that security awareness training properly consists of communication, raising of issues, and encouragement to modify behaviour. (This will come as no surprise to those who recall the definition of training as the modification of attitudes and behaviour.) He also notes that security professionals frequently concentrate solely on presentation of problems. The remainder of the introduction looks at other major security activities, and the part that awareness plays in ensuring that they actually work.

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EnGarde Secure Community v3.0.15 Now Available
10th, July, 2007

Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.15 (Version 3.0, Release 15). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes, some feature enhancements to Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, and a few new features.

EnGarde Secure Community v3.0.15 Now Available
10th, July, 2007

Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.15 (Version 3.0, Release 15). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes, some feature enhancements to Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, and a few new features.

ModSecurity2 On Debian Etch
9th, July, 2007

"ModSecurity is an Apache module that provides intrusion detection and prevention for web applications." It's not just for Debian and any Apache server can use this apache module. The goals of this module is to help protect web applications from known and unknown attacks, such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, path traversal attacks, etc. It's a very useful tool because web server are very visible to the outside world. Why not take a look at this module? It's easy to install with the help of this article.

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Mitigating the Effects of a DDoS Attack
13th, July, 2007

"You can't thwart a DDoS attack