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Citrix aims to ease servers' Web 2.0 workload
News The proliferation of widgets and Web 2.0 apps may in some cases require a company to purchase new racks of servers. Citrix said it will add a feature to NetScaler that pushes data to users and Web 2.0 apps to offload the strain on servers.
[April 14, 2009, 16:27]
Microsoft Web servers gain market share
News Apache servers running on Linux dropped a similar amount to 53.76 percent. Domain names are often "parked" on the servers of a registrar while they are under development. In most European countries 25 percent of SSL servers use vulnerable keys...
[April 2, 2002, 16:51]
PHP flaw threatens Web servers
News The flaw compromises different computer architectures in different ways: Web servers running on Intel IA-32 hardware could crash, while other systems, including Sun Microsystems' Solaris, could allow the attacker to infiltrate the computer.
[July 23, 2002, 9:31]
NT Option Pack targets Web servers
News The firm said that the Pack helps implement its Distributed interNet Applications (Windows DNA) architecture, and adds more meat Web and distributed application services. New features include Internet Information Server 4.0, Transaction Server 2.0...
[December 4, 1997, 10:14]
Bluetooth Web servers to invade the home
News The company is already making Bluetooth chips for consumer devices that include a simple Web server, giving each device its own Internet address via the next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6. A user in an airport for instance could simply type...
[September 11, 2002, 12:04]
New Apache flaw adds to Internet woes
News Web servers and corporate PCs are at risk from vulnerabilities in the popular Apache server software and in a component of Microsoft's Windows 2000. The new Apache flaw comes shortly after researchers publicised several security holes in OpenSSL, a...
[August 20, 2002, 12:19]
Hackers target BT over ADSL delays
News BT's Web servers were defaced at the weekend by a computer hacker angry at the delayed rollout of ADSL across the UK. This spokeswoman said security at BT's Web servers fell foul of a well known vulnerability in the operating system hosting the Web...
[April 2, 2001, 11:55]
More flaws threaten Windows
News Microsoft posted three advisories on its Web site on Wednesday detailing several recently discovered flaws, one of which was deemed critical for Windows NT and 2000 servers. Another release detailed two flaws in the way Microsoft SQL Server handles...
[June 13, 2002, 14:15]
Open source renders patching a problem
News The November 2005 survey found that Apache Web servers run on 70 percent of all Web sites. This workaround's original purpose was to address interoperability issues between Web servers and the secure applications they serve.
[November 17, 2005, 11:10]
NASA site blocks out Brazil
News Brazil, we have a problem: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) says it is blocking Brazilian access to its Web servers due to a wave of computer attacks from different locations in the country. It's also a prime target for computer intrusions...
[March 16, 2000, 10:54]
Web defacements and server hacks on the rise
News Hackers carried out almost 500,000 more attacks on Web sites and servers last year than in 2003, according to independent research. The report said that an average of roughly 2,500 Web servers (out of approximately 45 million) were hacked every day...
[April 25, 2005, 17:10]
Security expert warns of 'token kidnapping' threat
News Hosting providers and IT professionals have been warned of a threat posed to Microsoft IIS web servers through exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems. The technique works by elevating privileges through exploiting accounts...
[May 21, 2008, 15:33]
Linux worm creating P2P attack network
News A new worm that attacks Linux Web servers has compromised more than 3,500 machines, creating a rogue peer-to-peer network that has been used to attack other computers with a flood of data, security experts said on Saturday.
[September 16, 2002, 8:09]
Comdex 2001: New DNS diagnostics
News DNS servers are often a single point of failure that could cause your company's Web sites to vanish. To prevent such a crisis, redundancy is essential, and not just in terms of Web servers. A single point of failure -- in this case, the sole router...
[November 14, 2001, 14:56]
Google SPDY protocol could boost web speeds
News As part of its continual push to speed up the web, Google is taking a look at one of the most basic connections: the conversation between web servers and browsers. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) has long been the standard that allows web...
[November 13, 2009, 7:39]
TeleWest to move to Zeus
News TeleWest is to move its shared Web hosting service from Microsoft's IIS to Web servers from UK-based Zeus Technology. They installed equivalent-powered servers and found that utilisation went from 70 percent on IIS to 30 percent on Zeus," said Parker.
[November 14, 2001, 14:29]
Linux worm on the loose
News The worm spreads by exploiting Web servers that host susceptible scripts at specific locations, according to antivirus software maker McAfee, which has named the worm "Lupper". Lupper blindly attacks Web servers, installing and executing a copy of...
[November 8, 2005, 7:55]
MS anti-Unix site powered by... Unix
News The site, dubbed "We have the way out," runs on Web servers powered by FreeBSD, an open-source version of Unix, along with the Unix-based Web server Apache, according to Netcraft, which tracks Web site information.
[April 2, 2002, 9:47]
Hacker exploits Microsoft server flaw
News A hacker has announced that time's up for system administrators who haven't patched Windows 2000 Web servers vulnerable to a flaw revealed by Microsoft two days ago. Most Web servers use a specific connection, or "port," to send data to a browser.
[May 4, 2001, 7:31]
DoS worm invades Microsoft servers
News A program created to automatically flood Microsoft's Web and email servers has been discovered on several corporate networks and may have spread further on the Internet, antivirus researchers said Friday.
[June 11, 2001, 8:47]
