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Top 20 security holes listed   
Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 12:05 PM EDT
Contributed by: glosser

The quarterly SANS top 20 security list is out, and Microsoft tops the charts again.

The respected SANS Institute has published its latest list "top 20" list of critical Internet security vulnerabilities, which it says companies should patch immediately.

As expected, the list for the first quarter of 2005 is dominated by issues in Microsoft software, but Oracle, Computer Associates, Real Player and a number of anti-virus vendors also feature.

The Top 20 also confirms that it is now the client side of software, rather than the server OS, where the security problems occur most regularly, with the weakness of Internet Explorer and a range of utilities and media players offering attackers the best way into a network.

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