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Comprehensive security hotlist...you have to see it to believe it! Comprehensive does not do this site justice.
WOW! The site has in my opinion become the security WWW par excellence. The links are diverse and eclectic .... Put www.cs.purdue.edu/coast in your hotlist!
We've added a security section, including links to Gene Spafford's sites. His sites are exceptionally complete and well-organized. They're the cyber equivalent of the Smithsonian: You can browse them for weeks and still want more.
This page was originally constructed by Spaf, but with considerable assistance from the students in COAST. Major development and enhancements were made in 1996-1997 under the supervision of Tanya Mastin, with contributions by David Cole, Laura Feinstein, Brett Kopetsky, Marc Miller, Luke Nelson, Aurobindo Sundaram, and Amy Voss. A good deal of maintenance has also been performed by Tom Daniels and Todd O'Boyle. The calendar of security events is being maintained by Tanya and by Casey Gray. Steve Lodin built the specialized firewalls page, and Jason Reid built the system administration page.
The following is a table of contents for this page. Select the heading
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See also my hotlist for Government.
These sites may have documents, tools, standards, advisories, and pointers to other security collections.
These are pointers to collections of tools, or good archives where you can find security-related tools.
These sites may or may not advertise themselves as "underground" sites. Last time we looked, you might be as likely to find tools or instructions about how to break into a system as protect it. These links are provided for information use only.
This is a collection of pointers to vendor-provided security patches.
See also Spaf's hotlist on government.