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How to talk to Microsoft about Linux
Talkback If your argument was valid, we should see that Apache (esp. Apache on Linux) would be ravaged by worms and trojans but it isn't. Apache runs on ~70% of all Internet hosting servers yet there have only been a handful of remote compromises in its...
[June 14, 2004, 23:57]
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]
F-Secure gives Linux an antivirus injection
News The best known Linux virus was called Slapper, which two years ago infected vulnerable versions of the Apache Web server running on Linux and made them launch DDoS attacks. F-Secure Anti-Virus for Samba Servers detects, cleans, removes, and...
[March 25, 2004, 15:50]
Slapper worm grinds to a halt
News The worm exploited a flaw in the open-source security component used with many Linux-based Apache Web servers. Known as Linux.Slapper.Worm, Slapper and Apache/mod_ssl, the worm's spread has fallen far short of the biggest attackers in recent times.
[September 20, 2002, 13:32]
Linux world dismisses new Trojan risk
News Viruses that exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows are fairly common, but according to Red Hat, the popular Apache Web server has not had any vulnerabilities that would allow remote access for two years.
[January 4, 2002, 16:51]
Linux worm creating P2P attack network
News The worm targets Apache Web server installations on a variety of Linux systems, including those from Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake and Slackware. By exploiting a security hole in the Apache OpenSSL module that enables a widely used encrypted...
[September 16, 2002, 8:09]
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]
How to talk to Microsoft about Linux
Talkback Can you explain why Windows IIS websites are cracked or defaced more often than Apache ones, despite the fact that IIS runs less than a third the number of sites Apache does? Total Costs: with Windows OS: $500.00 + continual problems due to virii...
[June 23, 2004, 20:04]
Apache worm shows few signs of life
News A program designed to infect vulnerable computers running the open-source Apache Web server application apparently hasn't made it very far, security experts said on Monday. The Apache worm infects unpatched servers running the FreeBSD operating...
[July 2, 2002, 9:53]
Debian upgrade hones security
News The update contains fixes for 172 pieces of software, including high-profile entries like spam-buster SpamAssassin, Web browser Mozilla Firefox and its sister project the Thunderbird email client, the PHP and Python scripting languages, Web server...
[December 21, 2005, 14:55]
Watch out for new Apache worm
News Security experts are rushing to decode a worm program that exploits a two-week-old flaw to infect computers running vulnerable versions of the popular open-source Apache Web server application. While the initial advisory on the flaw, which was...
[July 1, 2002, 8:35]
'The future is open source'
Talkback So that's why most of the viruses and exploits that affect servers target IIS, with its 20% market share, instead of Apache, which has 67%? "That sentiment drew mixed reviews from other panellists, who wondered if the software simply seemed more...
[July 25, 2005, 17:22]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback And BTW, my windows 2000 machine also runs apache, mysql, php and o number of graphical applications without blue screens or virus infections. Red Hat is RIGHT, of course, and not only are they right, they should be taken seriously as an important...
[May 12, 2004, 13:00]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback And BTW, my windows 2000 machine also runs apache, mysql, php and o number of graphical applications without blue screens or virus infections. Red Hat is RIGHT, of course, and not only are they right, they should be taken seriously as an important...
[May 12, 2004, 11:27]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Talkback About 3x as many web sites are run on Apache as on IIS. About 2x as many IIS sites are defaced as Apache. About 2x as many attacks arrive tailored for Apache servers, or at least so say my own logs across many sites.
[April 8, 2005, 0:45]
Gartner advises companies to scrap Microsoft IIS
News According to Gartner, iPlanet and Apache offer advisable alternatives to Microsoft's server software. It combined elements of the Web-based Code Red virus and attacked the same buffer-overflow vulnerability in Microsoft's IIS software.
[September 25, 2001, 12:30]
Seven simple ways to stop security scares
News The Slapper worm is causing problems on Apache servers, dispelling the fug of invulnerability open source has with some people, and after five months in the wild the Klez email attack is still hale and healthy.
[September 26, 2002, 13:14]
Outrage at Symantec's OS X claims
Talkback Some of the stuff in these security updates are fixes for open source code that Apple includes with Mac OS X, such as the Apache web server. How an exploit becomes a virus/trojan/whatever usually comes about from some malicious person finding the...
[March 22, 2005, 19:43]
Survey says e-commerce servers still vulnerable
News The survey found that almost half of the 22 million monitored sites using Apache software for serving Web pages had been upgraded to version 1.3.26, which fixes a recently publicised vulnerability. But only one quarter of Apache sites using Secure...
[August 20, 2002, 15:24]
'Windows' toughest competitor is pirates' - Gates
Talkback And that included all of the applications that were loaded (including Samba, Office, Apache, PHP and a plethora of other programs and server applications). Then I needed additional CD's for Office, anti-virus, printer drivers, multi-media devices etc.
[June 29, 2004, 9:04]
