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• November 2008- Bipartisan server politi...er, security
  
• October 2008 - fwsnort-1.0.5: iptables intrusion detection
  
• September 2008 - PTA: Practical Threat Analysis
• August 2008 - NetworkMiner: Network Forensic Analysis Tool
• July 2008 - PHPIDS: Attack my website, please!
  
• June 2008 - Security Visualization: What You Don't See Can Hurt You
• May 2008 - MojoPac: Get Your Mojo Working
• April 2008 - The XSS Epidemic: Tools for discovery and remediation
  
• March 2008 - WinPatrol
• February 2008 - Packet Analysis with the Hex System
• January 2008 - Gpg4win: Email Security using GnuPG for Windows
• December 2007 - Mandiant Red Curtain: Malware identification for incident responders
  
• November 2007 - Argus: Auditing network activity
  
• October 2007 - Security Officers Management & Analysis Project (SOMAP)
  
• September 2007 - SensePost: Wikto, Scully, and CrowBar
• August 2007 - CIS Benchmarks
• July 2007 - Malcode Analysis Software Tools
• June 2007 - Search Engine Security Auditing
• May 2007 - Core Impact 6.2: Anatomy of an ethical penetration test
• April 2007 - Nessj: Application/network security scanner client
• March 2007: Managing Badware and Policy Violation with Aanval and Bleeding Edge Threat Snort Rules
• February 2007 - RAPIER v. 3.1
• January 2007 - Activeworx IDS Policy Manager 2.0: Rules management for multiple sensors
• December 2006 - Web Application Security Testing 101: Paros Proxy and Badstore
• November 2006 - Security Analysis with Wireshark