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FTP holes give attackers an easy way in
News According to PGP Security, the flawed FTP server software is part of the standard operating system package from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics. The vulnerability occurs in a function that allows people accessing a file...
[April 10, 2001, 12:34]
Sun contemplating open sourcing JES
News For server software, IBM, Microsoft, BEA and others provide plenty of competitors for Sun's JES, which is used for tasks such as hosting Web pages, managing email, tracking passwords and running Java business software.
[January 26, 2005, 10:35]
Will Web services revive Novell?
News Now, Novell will need to fend off Microsoft with its .Net strategy, Sun Microsystems and IBM with Java software in Web services, as well as competition from IBM and BEA Systems in the application server software area.
[June 14, 2002, 21:29]
Polese launches open-source software services firm
News LAMP refers to a commonly used combination of open-source components for building applications, including the Linux operating system, Apache Web server, MySQL database and development tools, such as Perl, PHP or Python.
[October 11, 2004, 9:10]
Microsoft finds several 'critical' Web glitches
News The security glitches have been discovered in the Internet Explorer Web browser, Microsoft's XML Core Services 2.6 and later, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. The company also patched server glitches that could let attackers...
[February 25, 2002, 17:31]
Global alert for next round of Code Red
News If you're a guy who runs an IIS Web server, you have to have heard about this unless you've been on vacation the past month or living in a cave," he said. Representatives from Microsoft, federal security agencies and various trade groups held a...
[July 31, 2001, 8:48]
Sun open sources identity services
News The release also will include software hooks to the Sun Java System Web Server and Sun Java System Application Server, they said. The company will release the source code to its Web authentication and Web single sign-on technology as part of a new...
[July 14, 2005, 9:30]
64-bit Windows, Apache make their way to Opteron
News AMD also announced a version of the Apache Web server customised for the chip. At a separate event, the chipmaker revealed that Covalent and Red Hat are developing an Apache-based Web server for the Opteron.
[November 18, 2002, 14:33]
Oracle takes on Microsoft on the desktop
News Besides its database software, Oracle sells application-server software; technology that runs e-business and Web site operations; and its 11i eBusiness Suite, software that automates a company's financial, human resources, customer service and...
[July 11, 2002, 9:45]
Oracle releases first quarterly patch
News The Critical Patch Update, available on the software company's Web site, is meant to fix 17 flaws in different versions of the Oracle Database Server, three flaws in Oracle's Application Server and another flaw in the Oracle Collaboration Server.
[January 19, 2005, 8:10]
IBM hopes to toast Sun with new appliance
News The xSeries Hosting Appliances server, due to ship on 16 April, is a high-density, preloaded Web-hosting appliance aimed at those ISPs who currently buy Cobalt Raq servers from Sun Microsystems. IBM already sells low-end server appliances -- the...
[April 12, 2002, 14:25]
Surprise patch was precaution - Microsoft
News Only systems that run Microsoft's Web server software, Internet Information Service (IIS), are threatened by the flaw, so the company originally decided to patch only Windows XP systems that had the service running.
[December 12, 2003, 8:55]
Students propose defence for DoS attack
News Denial-of-service attacks essentially come in three varieties: Ones that tie up the intended victim's Web server, for example, by sending in a flood of valid data; ones that consume so much memory that the server essentially freezes; and ones that...
[May 13, 2003, 13:30]
IBM pumps up 'on demand' power
News As previously reported, IBM will be relying on stripped-down, simplified versions of its server software products to appeal to midsized businesses. At the conference, IBM will focus on the "on demand operating environment," or the software...
[February 17, 2003, 12:05]
IPlanet: Software's not a dirty word
News Breya and her colleagues are betting there's still a lot of life left in the back-end server software suites popularised by companies including Microsoft with its BackOffice Server product family. Not every software vendor is hell-bent on hitching...
[December 11, 2000, 14:08]
Google does the business with new search hardware
News Google plans today to introduce new hardware and software to navigate corporate intranets and Web sites. The new technology will come in the form of a mid-range search appliance called the GB-5005, which is a multi-server system that indexes up to...
[September 30, 2002, 9:20]
Microsoft apologises for goofed fix
News In the latest incident, an error in the company's flagship mail server software endangered people who read mail using a Web browser. Portuguese security consultant Joao Gouveia likened the effect of the patch to a denial-of-service attack that...
[June 14, 2001, 9:16]
Microsoft's unified communications suite review
Reviews In contrast with most of the previous Microsoft server suites, Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) integrates functions from a range of other Microsoft applications, including the IIS web server, Active Directory, Certificate Services and...
[October 16, 2007, 10:34]
Novell emphasises open-source commitment
News NetWare 6.5, which will ship this summer, will be packaged with the open-source database MySQL and the open-source Apache Web server. The upcoming version of NetWare will also incorporate a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.3 Java...
[April 16, 2003, 10:19]
When hacking competitions go wrong
News One month on, there is no outright winner, the amount being offered to outstanding competitors has shrunk to $1,250 each, the server containing registration details of hackers has itself been hacked, and it has emerged that the target server may...
[May 31, 2002, 17:08]
