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Just Who's Being Exploited? Jamie Reid, 2008-04-21 A cynic, it has been said, is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Click here for Core!! “ In spite of all the vendor-hacker goodwill that 0-day purchasing schemes have been designed to promote, something isn't adding up. ” Last month's revelation that Tipping Point paid out a prize of $10,000 and a new laptop (MSRP: about $2000) at the CanSecWest conference, for the privilege of being the exclusive licensor of… Continue

Catch Them If You Can Don Parker, 2008-03-12 High-profile network security breaches have proliferated over the past few years. While many "breaches" consist of lost data or a stolen laptop, true breaches -- where a online attacker compromises a network and removes data -- have become very common. “ Network security analysts must have the necessary expertise to stop attacks. When a break in does occur, the blame quickly falls upon them, but the company would do well to look higher up the manag… Continue