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Although this news is pretty old in the "Information Security" context, fyi, FBI alongwith SANS has come out with a list of the top 20 software vulnerabilities which easily lead to successful attacks on computers. Actually there are two top ten lists for Windows and *nix. They traditionally come out with this list every year. They give information about how these vulnerabilities can be exploited by a cracker to get into your system. And how one can go about plugging these vulnerabilities. You can use this list to prioritize your efforts to secure your computer. Beware, dont be in the impression that this list is comprehensive. There are a lot of other bugs, but these are the mosted used ones by Black Hats to crack into a computer system. CIS gives away free tools to benchmark your computer system's security readiness for these top twenty vulnerabilities. You can check them out.