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Visit SANS http://www.sans.org/ and bookmark their Security Reading Room http://www.sans.org/rr/

SANS is probably best known for their directory of the top vulnerabilities http://www.sans.org/top20/

sign up for SANS alerts bulletin and check out GIAC certification http://www.giac.org/ SANS was one of the first places to evaluate the state of art of computer security on a broad scale. It developed lists of things people need to do to improve overall computer security, aimed at different subgroups of computing using population.

Internet Storm Center

and while you are in the neighborhood, explore the Internet Storm Center http://isc.sans.org/

SANS founded the Internet Storm Center, which tracks computer crime across the globe using like a weather map that you see on TV weather, with various colors for how bad it is where, established standards so that people with firewalls could have their logs automatically go to data bases that track cyber criminal activity and dispatch cyber police to take action against the cyber criminals who are doing the most damage, thus helping gain the most bang for $ anti-crime budgets available.