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SGI, HP, Oracle embrace Linux
News Other open-source programs include Apache, which is used to run Internet sites, and Samba, which connects Linux machines to Windows machines. Brian Behlendorf, who is well-known in the open-source community as one of the founders of Apache, will...
[May 14, 1999, 15:42]
Slapper worm continues to put it about
News Specifically, the worm uses a security flaw in the mod_ssl module for the Apache Web server. While Apache accounts for about two-thirds of all Web sites on the Internet, it's unknown how many of those sites use SSL.
[September 17, 2002, 12:39]
PeopleSoft vulnerability threatens data
News Last June, the firm issued a statement after discovering a critical flaw in the Apache Web server before notifying the Apache Software Foundation, the group responsible for maintaining the software. A serious vulnerability, which may allow...
[January 21, 2003, 10:00]
Centeris brings Linux and Microsoft together
News Likewise also allows administrators to use Microsoft tools to manage Apache Web servers. Vellon said that Centeris will also offer an open-source version of the product but that this would not include the Active X and Apache components.
[January 31, 2006, 11:40]
Tech expert tells French court to get real
News Laurie is director of the Apache Foundation, which supports development of the widely used Apache Web server. A technical expert has advised a French court that Yahoo! will not be able to restrict French Internet users from accessing prohibited...
[November 8, 2000, 13:10]
Slapper worm takes on new forms
News The worm exploits a flaw in the open-source security component used with many Linux-based Apache Web servers. Slapper attacks Apache SSL servers running on Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware and Debian Linux.
[September 25, 2002, 14:58]
Intel, HP, Yahoo create cloud-computing labs
News Each centre will have between 1,000 and 4,000 processor cores running Apache Hadoop — an open-source, distributed computing project from the Apache Software Foundation, already used by Yahoo in web search and advertising — and other parallel...
[July 29, 2008, 17:53]
Open-source code maintainer filled with flaws
News Major open-source projects, including the Apache Foundation's Apache Web server and the GNOME and KDE Linux desktops, use the Concurrent Versions System to manage code under development. Security researchers have found at least six more flaws in...
[June 10, 2004, 9:05]
Windows Server 2003 passes Solaris 9
News By comparison, 63 percent run on the leader, open-source Web server Apache. Microsoft's share grew by 0.01 percent over the March survey, and Apache grew by 0.06 percent. Windows Server 2003 will not officially launch until later this month, but it...
[April 14, 2003, 15:48]
Mailman flaw gives away passwords
News Servers that run Apache 2.0 and Mailman are suspected to be immune to exploitation of the vulnerability, according to a security advisory on the Mailman Web site. The Full Disclosure discussion list had used Mailman running on Apache 1.3, a...
[February 11, 2005, 8:55]
Hundreds of sites infected with dynamic malware
News However, Landesman said this is now looking less likely, as a number of the hosts rebuilt their Apache kernels, and suffered reinfection. Once they are in the door, the attackers are leveraging the promiscuous behaviour of modules on Apache servers...
[January 18, 2008, 15:58]
Symantec's self serving warnings
Talkback Many of the reported vulnerabilities in OSX (and many other *nix OS) are often based on popular features like Apache where open source programmers are continually tweaking their code and finding their own vulnerabilities which Apple then passes on...
[March 22, 2005, 16:56]
US Government to fund open source bug hunt
News Programmers working on the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, BIND Internet infrastructure software and Firefox browser, for example, will be able to fix security vulnerabilities flagged by the system before their code becomes part of a...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
Symbian vs Android: How they square up
News Some companies have given intellectual property to OHA that will be released under the open-source Apache License version 2. In contrast, the Apache licensing agreement is less tolerant of software patents.
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
Panther gets patched
News A flaw affecting the Apache Web server, meanwhile, could allow a buffer overflow in the htdigest program, which if used improperly in a CGI application could in turn allow a remote system attack. Secunia downplayed the Apache flaw.
[May 5, 2005, 10:15]
The problems with open source
Talkback There are many copies of Windows running Apache. Indeed, Apache, a core piece of OSS, probably saved MS as a internet server operating system, because IIS was such a piece of dog-meat. If Apache had not been available, I suspect that Unix and OSS...
[August 9, 2005, 16:50]
SpikeSource stacks up open source lineup
News Enterprise customers' use of software such as the Apache Web server and the Linux operating system is common, and they are now looking to use more infrastructure software, such as databases, Java application servers and tools, to build business...
[January 5, 2005, 7:40]
Sonic builds a model ESB
News In August Sonic and Web services management company Infravio donated code to form the basis of an open source ESB or "Web Services broker" project backed by the Apache Software Foundation, called Apache Synapse.
[December 9, 2005, 9:25]
Apple ships rack-mounted server
News This certainly places Apple head-to-head with Linux, considering they did release the benchmark metrics about how well it did with Apache Web Server," Deal said. Xserve puts Apple in a position to wrestle some market share from Linux, which is one...
[July 1, 2002, 16:41]
JBoss offers customers legal protection
News Formed under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation, Geronimo has set out to release a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server similar to JBoss' J2EE-based software. Earlier this month, JBoss Group lawyers sent the Apache...
[November 17, 2003, 8:37]
