For the past four years the SANS Institute has partnered with the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center to compile and publish its list of the most commonly exploited IT security vulnerabilities. This list is regularly updated and revised. Earlier, I examined the latest Windows threats from the list. Now I'll cover the top 10 Linux/Unix threats. . . .

For the past four years the SANS Institute has partnered with the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center to compile and publish its list of the most commonly exploited IT security vulnerabilities. This list is regularly updated and revised. Earlier, I examined the latest Windows threats from the list. Now I'll cover the top 10 Linux/Unix threats.

It's important to recall that, unlike the ever-growing list of new exploits found in operating systems and applications, the SANS-FBI list prioritizes them according to the actual number of attacks seen by the organizations surveyed.

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