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• Improving The Security of Your System by Breaking Into It
  Farmer & Venema; date unknown; HTML ``An excellent text by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema. If you haven't read this before, here's your opportunity.
  http://firewall.com/papers/improve_by_breakin.html
• Improving the Security of your Unix System
  Curry, David, SRI International; 1990; GZip'd Postscript; 99k ``This is the somewhat well known SRI Report on Unix Security. It's a good solid starting place for securing a Unix box.
  http://firewall.com/papers/improving_security_sri.ps.gz
• Network (In)Security Through IP Packet Filtering
  Chapman, D. Brent; 1992; GZip'd Postscript; 46k ``Why packet filtering is a difficult to use and not always secure method of securing a network.
  http://firewall.com/papers/packet_filt_chapman.ps.gz
• NFS Tracing by Passive Network Monitoring
  Blaze, Matt; 1992; ASCII Text ``Blaze, now famous for cracking the Clipper chip while at Bell Labs, wrote this paper while he was a PhD candidate at Princeton.
  http://firewall.com/papers/nfs_trace.txt
• Packets Found on an Internet
  Bellovin, Steven M.; 1993; GZip'd Postscript; 32k ``A very interesting paper describing the various attacks, probes, and miscellaneous packets floating past AT&T Bell Labs' net connection.
  http://firewall.com/papers/packets_found_bellovin.ps.gz
• Patch management with GFI LANguard N.S.S. & Microsoft SUS
  This white paper provides an overview of how to use GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) and Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS) to keep your network automatically updated with the latest security patches.
  http://www.gfi.com/whitepapers/patch-management.pdf
• Protecting your network against email threats
  This white paper explains why anti-virus software alone is not enough to protect your organization against the current and future onslaught of email viruses and threats. Examining the different kinds of email attacks and issues that threaten today's organizations, this paper describes the need for a solid server-based email security solution to safeguard your network.
  http://www.gfi.com/whitepapers/network-protection-against-email-threats.pdf
• Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
  Bellovin, Steven M.; 1989; GZip'd Postscript; 10k ``A broad overview of problems within TCP/IP itself, as well as many common application layer protocols which rely on TCP/IP.
  http://firewall.com/papers/tcpip_problems_bellovin.ps.gz
• TCP Wrapper
  Venema, Wietse; Gzip'd Postscript; 13k ``Wietse's paper describing his TCP Wrapper concept, the basis for the TCP Wrappers security and logging suite.
  http://firewall.com/papers/tcp_wrapper.ps.gz
• The COPS Security Checker System
  Farmer & Spafford; 1994; GZip'd Postscript; 45k ``The original Usenix paper from 1990 republished by CERT in 1994.
  http://firewall.com/papers/cops.ps.gz

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