Re: Internet security

["J. Rodney Grisham" <grisham@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since Internet security seems to be a hot topic on this list,
let me point out "the" system manager's site for keeping up 
with security issues for a variety of operating systems
and for patches to plug the holes as hackers find them.
Everything you want to know since the late 80's is there for
your review and analysis.  You can subscribe to their security
alert messages, if you like.

See the URL

http://www.cert.org/

  "The CERT* Coordination Center studies Internet security
  vulnerabilities, provides incident response services to sites
  that have been the victims of attack, publishes a variety of 
  security alerts, researches security and survivability in
  wide-area-networked computing, and develops information to 
  help you improve security at your site."

CERT is funded by the US Gov and is located on Carnegie Mellon
University as part of the Software Engineering Institute.

You can also get information from 

http://www.ciac.org/

but CERT is the key security analysis organization.

Rod