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The open-source movement, which has long made inroads into corporations via Linux and other enterprise-level software, now has a potentially bigger target in its cross hairs: the PBXs and network routers from companies such as Cisco Systems that form the basis of networking infrastructure.

Information technology managers said they're on guard against a new distributed denial-of-service attack tool called trinity that targets Linux servers and uses IRC channels to unleash IP packet floods.