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Web Servers: Applications and Vulnerabilities
White Papers In TechRepublic's Web Servers: Applications and Vulnerabilities, you'll find data provided by TechRepublic's members revealing how they deploy Web servers, scan for and respond to security threats, perform planning and testing to ensure Web server...
[October 17, 2009, 0:00]
EquiLoad: A Load Balancing Policy for Clustered Web Servers
White Papers This paper presents a new strategy for the allocation of requests in clustered web servers, based on the size distribution of the requested documents. This strategy, EquiLoad, manages to achieve a balanced load to each of the back-end servers, and...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Protecting Web Servers From Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers Furthermore they present a solution based on Class Based Routing mechanisms in the Linux kernel that will prevent the most severe impacts of DDoS on clusters of web servers with a prepended load balancing server.
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
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]
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Servers
White Papers IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Web Servers (ITCAM for Web Servers) enables one to monitor the data and applications of transactions invoked by Web servers. Using ITCAM for Web Servers, one can find the root cause of problems...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
Protecting Microsoft Internet Information Services Web Servers With ISA Server 2004
White Papers The intelligent application-layer filtering mechanisms in ISA Server 2004 not only provide a high level of security for corporate Web servers, but also give the firewall administrator a high level of control over how these resources are accessed...
[October 16, 2004, 3:00]
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]
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]
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]
A Management and Performance Framework for Semantic Web Servers
White Papers The unification of Semantic Web query languages under the SPARQL standard and the development of commercial-quality implementations are encouraging industries to use semantic technologies for managing information.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Scalable Socket Buffer Tuning for High-Performance Web Servers
White Papers Although many research efforts have been devoted to network congestion in the face of an increase in the Internet traffic, there is little discussion on performance improvements for endhosts. This paper proposes a new architecture, called Scalable...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
GSM SIMs as Web Servers
White Papers GSM SIMs are operator-trusted security servers in GSM, performing computations on behalf of a GSM subscriber. This paper outlines a prototype that integrates the GSM security infrastructure into the Internet: The idea is to extend a GSM SIM to a...
[November 9, 2005, 0:00]
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]
Deep Packets: Application Layer Security Threats
White Papers Attackers have progressed from scanning network ports and creating denial-of-service attacks to targeting software such as Web browsers, Web servers, e-mail programs and even database servers. Viruses can sometimes go undetected through traditional...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
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]
Independent Testing of Server Migration Tools
White Papers The client had developed a set of tools for migrating applications from competing application/web servers to its new proprietary server platform. Blue Star Infotech (BSI) was selected for this due to its in-depth experience in J2EE technologies and...
[March 4, 2009, 0:25]
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]
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]
Secure Remote and Outbound Internet Access Using ISA Server 2006 Web Proxy
White Papers Almost all companies today have a connection to the Internet that provides access to information on Web servers at partner and customer sites, as well as access to Web content at main offices from branch locations.
[September 7, 2006, 3:18]
