Networking and Security Reading and News

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Security websites

• SecurityFocus.com. Long a leader in the field, even after the site changed ownership.
  
• VitalSecurity.org
  
• IDefense.com
  
• The Center for Internet Security
  
• SANS. The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute.
  
• Secunia.com. Excellent resource, the latest security alerts for a wide range of products, like MSIE's unending stream of critical security holes.
  

Technical websites with good security sections

• TheRegister.com - one of our favorites, worth reading every day.
  

Security Mailing Lists

• BugTraq. Probably the best known of all the lists. This page has the signup information.
  
• Full Disclosure. An unmoderated high-traffic forum for disclosure of security information. Lots of junk, some jewels.
  
• List of Security email list serves. Includes archives of material from different lists.
  

Readings, Whitepapers

• Whitepaper by MS on switching Hotmail from Unix to Windows. One of the best, and most damning, whitepapers published, since it was written by MS people, demonstrates just why Unix is a superior server OS for this type of application.