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New Trojan appears to attack VeriSign
News Sophos' antivirus team has confirmed that it is in the preliminary stages of analysing a new Trojan that may be linked to an organised attack on VeriSign's domain name servers. It's changing the IP address of the DNS servers from ours [domain name...
[October 2, 2003, 14:50]
AOL IM tools up for business
News There is a reason enterprise-grade IM (EIM) software hasn't taken off: companies simply don't want to buy and maintain complex IM servers. Because the service is run remotely and available on-demand, users don't need to run and maintain dedicated...
[September 15, 2006, 11:15]
Caldera to release Project 42 public beta
News The new OpenLinux server is based on the recently released 2.4 Linux kernel and comes with a secure Web server, a file and print server, and a set of network infrastructure servers. Because it supports Unix and Samba file and print servers, Project...
[March 14, 2001, 14:41]
New analyses reveal Nimda's tenacity
News For all other IIS servers, the program attempts to use the "Web server folder traversal" vulnerability discovered in October 2000 to copy the file "admin.dll" to the server. XO Communications acknowledged on Friday that the company severed almost a...
[September 24, 2001, 9:41]
Start-ups back Linux for data centres
News CoroSoft's suite includes modules to control Web servers, which send out Web pages across the Internet and for Domain Name System servers -- the providers of numerical addresses that let computers can find each other over the Internet.
[January 22, 2003, 10:14]
.Net Server: Three delays a charm?
News Microsoft said Sunday that it plans to release four versions of Windows .Net Server 2003: Datacenter, for top-end machines with dozens of processors and high reliability requirements; Enterprise Server, for more mainstream multiprocessor servers...
[November 18, 2002, 15:56]
IBM spinoff takes new server approach
News The goal of these "hyper-dense" designs is to stack comparatively low-end servers as densely as possible for jobs such as hosting Web pages. The Pentium version will just mean the servers can be used for more CPU-intensive jobs, such as hosting Web...
[October 1, 2001, 14:15]
Apple sets up Rendezvous with Windows, Linux
News The current release includes full support for linking to other devices using standard Internet protocols and allows Windows machines to advertise and discover Web servers and file servers on a local network using Internet Explorer.
[July 1, 2004, 13:10]
Weaving grid computing into Web services
News At the Global Grid Forum in Toronto, business-computing and Web services heavyweights IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard will converge with the academic powers that spawned the grid concept, which connects servers and...
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Java allies ape Microsoft's methods
News The goal is to make Java the preferred software for building and deploying Web services applications, thereby driving sales of related software, including application servers, portal software and integration servers.
[September 22, 2003, 12:05]
Dell starts selling AMD chips
News Dell is not selling any of AMD's other chips, such as the Opteron processor for servers or the Turion for laptops. CNET Forum readers spotted the processors for sale last week, although responses were lacklustre considering Dell is offering only...
[November 9, 2005, 9:05]
Global alert for next round of Code Red
News The Code Red worm last month infected servers worldwide and launched a massive denial-of-service attack against the White House's official Web site. Initial Microsoft estimates were that servers responsible for more than 6 million Web sites were...
[July 31, 2001, 8:48]
Integrate Passport into your ASP.Net apps
News This allows your ASP.Net application to access the Microsoft Passport servers. All Passport authentication is done through Microsoft's own servers. The built-in Passport support in XP will prevent you from authenticating using the PREP servers...
[April 13, 2003, 19:59]
Toshiba adds wireless to Magnia servers
News Toshiba's newest servers, part of its Magnia family, aim to help businesses handle multiple tasks such as tracking billable hours and employee schedules while hosting a wireless network or storing files.
[May 1, 2003, 10:18]
Grid software gets business connection
News Developers of the Globus Toolkit program -- open-source software used to link groups of servers and storage systems into a single pool of computing power -- have released an alpha version of their software that incorporates Web services technology...
[January 15, 2003, 8:18]
Carnivore clone goes open source
News According to Network ICE, the FBI had requested that any university that wanted to review the software verify that it: monitors suspect's email (either headers or full content monitors suspect's access to certain types of servers, including Web...
[September 21, 2000, 8:57]
Zeus ZXTM 4.1 review
Reviews We used the browser-based management interface to set up simple load balancing for two web servers. We used the 'Manage a new service' wizard to set up load balancing for our web servers. The wizard presents four dialogue boxes (see the 'Images...
[April 19, 2007, 8:10]
Firewalls failing to protect banks, says security expert
News Proxy servers also sit in front of web servers, and they both reduce the load and act as filters, blocking malware attacks. Firewall technology has grown up from the simple port controller, which identifies and either blocks or allows traffic based...
[October 9, 2009, 8:13]
Watch for top Linux/Unix threats
News Internet Web servers are inherently vulnerable for various reasons, as you can see by the fact that Apache is number two on the Unix list, while IIS is number one on the Windows list. HTTP (80/tcp) and SSL (443/tcp) except to external Web servers...
[October 22, 2002, 8:29]
Slammer may not feed on Microsoft alone
News Last weekend, many corporate networks, ISPs and commercial Web sites slowed to a crawl after a fast-spreading computer worm infected database servers running vulnerable Microsoft software. More than 30 products, from security scanners to backup...
[January 30, 2003, 7:49]
