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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Electrohippy promises WTO denial of service
News UK Internet activist and self-confessed "electrohippy" Paul Mobbs is confident that his Web site will co-ordinate a successful denial of service attack against the Web servers of the World Trade Organisation Today.
[November 30, 1999, 10:44]
Linux worm creating P2P attack network
News A new worm that attacks Linux Web servers has compromised more than 3,500 machines, creating a rogue peer-to-peer network that has been used to attack other computers with a flood of data, security experts said on Saturday.
[September 16, 2002, 8:09]
Hacker exploits Microsoft server flaw
News A hacker has announced that time's up for system administrators who haven't patched Windows 2000 Web servers vulnerable to a flaw revealed by Microsoft two days ago. Most Web servers use a specific connection, or "port," to send data to a browser.
[May 4, 2001, 7:31]
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]
Microsoft races to fix security hole
News Microsoft has announced a serious security hole in its flagship Web server software, and on Tuesday was racing to convince system administrators to patch their Web servers before online vandals compromise their systems.
[May 2, 2001, 8:32]
