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Microsoft refutes claims that Nimda infected its FrontPage
News The worm spreads by sending e-mail messages with an infected attachment, scanning for and infecting vulnerable Web servers running Microsoft's Internet Information Server software, copying itself to shared disk drives on networks, and appending...
[September 20, 2001, 14:44]
Linux replaces Microsoft at Air New Zealand
News Roger DeSalis of the New Zealand Network Operators Group said that input-output (IO) advantages benefited mainframes over PC servers, and that Web serving was all about IO. Air New Zealand is replacing 150 Compaq NT servers with two IBM mainframes...
[August 14, 2002, 14:29]
Code Red variant causes little alarm
News The original Code Red wreaked widespread havoc during the summer of 2001, infecting more than 350,000 Web servers running IIS. The infected servers were used to spread the worm and to launch a denial-of-service attack on the main Web site for the...
[March 13, 2003, 8:36]
Microsoft touts benefits of server 'roles'
News People really do think of it as an installation option because they don't necessarily, at purchase time, make the decision exactly how many directory servers they are going to have, how many web servers.
[May 17, 2007, 10:45]
Second Exchange patch runs into trouble
News The flaw affected servers that offered Outlook Web Access, a way for employees to read their mail via the Web. While Microsoft denied that it had received any reports of difficulties with its second patch for securing Exchange 2000 and 5.5, three...
[June 13, 2001, 10:31]
Attacks increase on Apache servers
News ESecurityplanet.com has reported that the Apache software, which is used by about 60 percent of Web servers, is being actively attacked on the Internet. The latest Apache Foundation warning posted on BugTraq cautions that the mod_ssl slapper worm...
[December 11, 2002, 10:59]
Sobig.F lingers as cure backfires
News Once infected by Sobig.F, a PC would periodically link to 20 Web servers that has been individually hacked by the virus author, and try to download a file. Email security firm MessageLabs said on Friday that Sobig.F was the third most active virus...
[November 28, 2003, 16:50]
Windows Server 2003 launches, at last
News The main ones are Datacenter, for top-end machines with dozens of processors and high reliability requirements; Enterprise Server, for more mainstream multiprocessor servers; Standard Server, for low-end servers; and new Web Server for low-end...
[April 24, 2003, 11:52]
Grid computing luring mainstream backers
News The meeting triggered moves by IBM, Sun and Microsoft to marry grids with Web services, a technology that lets business transactions run atop servers scattered all over the Internet. During the past 10 years, academics and start-ups have been...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Don't broadcast info about Windows servers to hackers
News By far, the most popular targets on the Internet are Web servers running Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows. Windows servers are made to announce themselves to whoever needs their services.
[January 21, 2003, 8:14]
F-Secure gives Linux an antivirus injection
News F-Secure Anti-Virus for Samba Servers detects, cleans, removes, and disinfects viruses from files stored or processed on Samba Servers, said F-Secure on its Web site. F-Secure launched antivirus software for Linux on Thursday that is designed to...
[March 25, 2004, 15:50]
Browser flaws biggest software security risk
News Sophos questioned how the statistics had been collated and the potential severity of the flaws, due to the limited number of people who use smaller web servers. Cluley said that XSS attacks are very common on less popular web servers and...
[September 15, 2006, 18:00]
EmergeCore IT-100 review
Reviews And multiple domains can be configured for both email and Web servers with fully supported antivirus protection and a spam blocker to protect users. DHCP and DNS servers come as standard, along with a port forwarding firewall, all of which prove...
[October 12, 2004, 10:35]
Perl flaw more dangerous than thought
News Perl, a popular scripting language, is widely used for Web applications, often on servers that run the Linux operating system. Web servers are a good target because of a lot of Perl scripts would be available to anonymous, remote users.
[November 30, 2005, 9:10]
Code Red worm traced to Chinese university
News The Code Red II worm is more malicious, as it installs "back doors" on infected Web servers, allowing any remote hacker to execute arbitrary commands and take complete control of a system. An estimated 975,000 servers have been infected in total...
[September 4, 2001, 11:42]
Vandals mutate Ramen Linux worm
News After the worm finds a vulnerable server, it uses the vulnerability to copy itself to the server, replace the front Web page with its own, and then starts scanning for other insecure servers. Other recent attacks and defacements on Red Hat servers...
[January 23, 2001, 9:18]
Gartner: Beware of Bofra exploit
News Computers running SP2 not affected by the bug, but Apache Web servers are. The analyst company recommended businesses using Apache Web servers to apply security patches as soon as possible. Hackers are set to increase their use of banner ad...
[November 25, 2004, 15:50]
Cabinet Office hit by Web site outage
News Stiffell explained that its Web site was successfully moved from Pipex to servers run by BT, but that the router problems occurred with the migration back from BT to Pipex. Stiffell added that the Cabinet Office uses a number of telecoms service...
[December 1, 2005, 11:55]
ISP hackers likely to evade justice
News The hack attack targeted the most vulnerable point of our network -- the Web servers -- and through this door they were able to obtain information about our key internal servers. When the attacks came they were both internal and external and...
[February 14, 2002, 11:01]
Sun hands Cobalt an open-source lifeline
News As ISPs and companies hosting Web sites warmed to the Cobalt servers in the late 1990s, Sun Microsystems, whose big, support-heavy servers were losing space to rack-fulls of cheap, almost disposable Cobalt Raqs, Sun bought the company for $2.2bn...
[January 2, 2004, 10:55]
