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Security issues often seem to smolder more than burn, but these six are certainly capable of lighting a fire under IT professionals at a moment's notice. Handle with care.

It takes a lot to shock Chris Goggans; he's been a pen (penetration) tester since 1991, getting paid to break into a wide variety of networks. But he says nothing was as egregious as security lapses in both infrastructure design and patch management at a civilian government agency -- holes that let him hack his way through to a major FBI crime database within a mere six hours.

Infosecurity SystemExperts, a security consultancy in Sudbury, Mass., reviewed its clients' experiences to cite these information security trends for 2005

Using an application service provider means your computer application is running on someone else’s server. Is the provider’s security up to snuff? Better know which questions to ask.