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from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide

If you haven't already seen the deluge of Microsoft Security Bulletins released this last week, make sure you check them out and apply any patches or updates you need to secure your computers from the latest barrage of vulnerabilities.

This week I posted an article called Mea Culpa or Tu Culpa? exploring the issues of staying up to date with the latest vulnerabilities and applying the necessary patches to protect your computers. The article discusses who should be responsible- software vendors, individual users or ISP's? To voice your opinion on this controversial topic you can also join the debate in the Forums.

This week I also posted an Interview with Ed Skoudis - author of The Hack-Counter Hack Training Course and the book Counter Hack- as well as a couple new book reviews (A Guide to Forensic Testimony and Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials).

I finally got the Computer Security 101 Final Exam posted. This is a 50-question mega quiz to test your knowledge of all 10 of the Computer Security 101 lessons. Take the Final Exam to see how much you learned or how much you know.

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Mea Culpa or Tu Culpa? Who Should Take Responsibility?
Recent worms such as SQL Slammer and MSBlast have exploited vulnerabilities for which patches were readily available. The timeframe from public disclosure of a vulnerability to an active exploit that grinds the Internet to a halt keeps getting shorter. Who...read more

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Interview With Ed Skoudis
Ed Skoudis is a respected information security guru. He has written the book Counter-Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses and created the CD video tutorial Hack-Counter Hack Training Course: A Desktop Seminar. He has a book to be released soon called Malware: Fighting Malicious Code. Between writing books and training courses Mr. Skoudis also lectures for the SANS Institute- travelling the country to teach other professionals about information security. Ed Skoudis took some time out of his busy schedule to answer some interview questions.

Final Exam: Computer Security 101
Don't break out in a cold sweat or anything. If you've done your homework this should be a lot easier than the Calculus mid-terms you had in college. Now that you have read and studied all 10 of the Computer Security 101 lessons and taken all 10 of the Computer Security 101 quizzes- its time for the Final Exam. This is a 50-question quiz that pulls questions and answers from across all 10 lessons to really test how much you've learned.

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