Security: red image of padlock with @ symbol superimposed The SANS Institute released 2004's Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list, its fifth edition of the annual list.

It's a good, evolving guide that draws attention to the problem of Internet security which is of growing importance as we become more reliant on the Internet as a platform for our communications and commerce. (More on the relative importance of Internet security in another blog post -- when I get some time to write about that).

Notable additions to the list are e-mail client software vulnerabilities and instant messaging vulnerabilities on the Windows list. I am unsure why both of these were not added to the list before....   more »