Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

Security and robustness can't be discussed in a vacuum, though. The Internet is fundamentally a Unix-y construct, and if you want to learn about how it works, doing it with *nix technologies is the ...

Computer security firm C2Net announced the release of the new open source Stronghold Secure Web server at the European Linux Expo in London, Friday. The product from this US-based company is based on ...

Securing Web services is easy: All you have to do is secure your Web server, secure every message flowing in and out of your server, secure every application that has anything to do with SOAP and XML, ...

Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Service (IIS) vs. Apache, I’ve come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. Since a single ...

(1) A server on the Web that supports a security protocol, which is typically SSL. Order forms with credit card numbers and other sensitive data transmitted to and from a Web server must be encrypted ...

When the security industry thinks about breaches caused by human error, the image of an employee accidentally clicking on a malicious link in a phishing email often comes to mind. But to err is human, ...

The open source Apache Web server is by far the most popular Web server in the world. According to Netcraft Ltd.’s December 2005 survey, nearly 70 percent of the developers they surveyed said they ...

Google is funding a project at the Internet Security Research Group to port a crucial component of the Apache HTTP web server project from the bug-prone C programming language to a safer alternative ...

Editors' Note: The following is a chapter from the book Multitool Linux, written by Michael Schwarz, Jeremy Anderson, Peter Curtis and Steven Murphy. The chapter presented here was written by their ...

Sun Microsystems was expected to announce on April 19 an update of its Secure Web Server Reference Architecture during its iForce Partner Summit in San Diego. Basically a set of how-to plans for ...