1. Forrester Research published a report (which was rebutted by Linux and GNU vendors) questioning whether Linux was really more secure than this operating system.
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2. According to security experts, as Linux becomes ever more widely used in business environments, it's likely to become a more frequent target of these attacks.
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3. A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was reported in January by this German Linux distributor and Novell partner.
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4. This open source operating system was recently released in a new "security enhanced" version.
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5. This type of security management system gathers and analyzes information from various areas within a computer or a network to identify possible security breaches.
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6. This open source network intrusion detection system is often used in conjunction with Linux.
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7. In January, Red Hat put out a warning about a vulnerability to this kind of attack in Apache servers, in which the attacker sends more data than can be held in the temporary storage area.
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8. According to the NetFilter project, a Linux server subsystem can be set up to substitute for this security product.
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9. SE Linux was developed by this agency, the official U.S. cryptologic organization.
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10. Considered the foremost security specification document in the world, this is a generic set of best practices for the security of information systems.
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