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Apache Tomcat Users Advised to Update to Avoid Hash DOS Attacks

The Apache Software developers released an advisory, recommending customers to update their Apache Tomcat software to protect themselves against potential hash denial of service (DOS) attacks. “Analysis of the recent hash collision vulnerability identified unrelated inefficiencies with Apache Tomcat's han...

18 January 2012
07:17 GMT

The Number of Websites Doubled in 2011, to Reach 582 Million

The year ended with 582,716,657 as measured by Netcraft. That's a big growth from the previous month, December 2011 started with 27.2 million less websites. But the 4.9 percent growth is nothing compared to the entire year, there were only 255 million websites detected at the start of 2011. The number has more ...

3 January 2012
18:41 GMT

Apache Tomcat Workaround for Hashtable Collision DoS Vulnerability

A couple of researchers found that a critical vulnerability affects most web application frameworks, allowing a cybercriminal to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Since Apache Tomcat web server is among the ones affected, the Tomcat security team came forward with a workaround for the issue. Apache Tomcat is v...

29 December 2011
05:14 GMT

Apache Reverse Proxy Issue Not Patched Properly

Prutha Parikh, a security specialist, reported that the patch released by Apache in October could still allow for an attacker to remotely access internal servers that rely on this technology. Apache already acknowledged the problem and assigned it a new CVE to make sure it will be dealt with in the next release. Pa...

25 November 2011
09:22 GMT

Wave the Final Goodbye to Google Wave

Google Wave was once Google's most ambitious projects. That turned out to be its undoing since, while Wave was a technological wonder, it was solution looking for a problem. It promised real-time collaboration, a combination of wiki and chat, and plenty of other advanced features. But few people actually figure...

23 November 2011
10:41 GMT

Adobe's PhoneGap 1.2 Is Here, Will Be Called Apache Callback

Last month, Adobe made a big commitment to HTML5 by acquiring Nitobi, the maker of the fairly popular PhoneGap tool which converts HMTL5 and other web code into native mobile apps. Immediately, Adobe announced that PhoneGap would be donated to the Apache Software Foundation. The process is underway, PhoneGab is curr...

22 November 2011
09:18 GMT

Apache Adds 15.9 Million Sites in October, the Global Total Is Now at 526 Million

Last month, a major milestone was overpassed, more than 500 million websites had been created. As you'd expect, the number grew further in the past month and there are now almost 526 million sites in the world.That's a 22 million increase from the previous month, a 4.3 percent rise. In terms of raw number o...

8 November 2011
11:30 GMT

The Web Now Has Over 500 Million Websites

The web has been growing like crazy for a long time, since it first launched actually, but it has now reached a new record high. As of the start of October 2011, there are 500 million websites online, according to the latest Netcraft data.That's an important milestone, but even more impressive is the growth spur...

7 October 2011
16:31 GMT

Apache: Air Assault Achievements IV (Xbox 360)

Apache: Air Assault is a video game made by Russian development studio Gaijin Entertainment and launched by large publisher Activision for platforms like the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, on November 16, 2010, as a new type of combat flight simulator, focused, like its name clearly suggests, on helicopters instead o...

22 September 2011
06:51 GMT

Apache: Air Assault Achievements III (Xbox 360)

Apache: Air Assault is a video game made by Russian development studio Gaijin Entertainment and launched by large publisher Activision for platforms like the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, on November 16, 2010, as a new type of combat flight simulator, focused, like its name clearly suggests, on helicopters instead o...

21 September 2011
13:31 GMT

Apache: Air Assault Achievements II (Xbox 360)

Apache: Air Assault is a video game made by Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment and published by large company Activision for platforms like the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, released on November 16, 2010, as a new type of combat flight simulator, but focused, like its name clearly suggests, on helicopters instead o...

20 September 2011
11:51 GMT

Apache: Air Assault Achievements (Xbox 360)

Apache: Air Assault is a video game created by Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment and published by Activision for platforms like the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, released on November 16, 2010, as a new type of combat flight simulator, much like other titles of this sort, but focused, like its name clearly suggests...

19 September 2011
07:51 GMT

Nginx Sees the Biggest Growth in Web Server Market in August

August didn't see a huge increase in the number of hostnames on the web, certainly nothing like July, but the number of web servers around is still growing. 22 million were added in the last month for a total of 485,173,671 sites. Apache got the most new web servers, but its overall market share saw a small d...

6 September 2011
10:16 GMT

Zero-Day Remote DoS Exploit Threatens Apache Servers

An exploit released on the Full Security mailinglist enables potential attackers to execute remote denial of service attacks against Apache web servers with ease. Unlike distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that rely on sheer numbers to overload servers with requests, this attack exploits a vulnerability t...

25 August 2011
07:17 GMT

100 Million Hostnames Spring Up in July, Web Server Market Stays Roughly the Same

There's been a big increase in the number of web servers discovered live at the start of August 2011, more than 100 million new hostnames were found. However, the overall market share of the popular web servers changed slightly. In the latest survey by Netcraft, 463,000,317 sites were found. That's compared...

8 August 2011
09:02 GMT

Nginx Web Server Creator Sets Up Company to Push Project Forward

Nginx, the fairly popular web server, has been operating mostly under the radar for almost a decade now. Nginx's creator, Igor Sysoev, though believes it is time to take it to the next level and is launching a company around the project which will offer services related to the web server and hopefully spur devel...

19 July 2011
07:21 GMT

OpenOffice Has Been Accepted by the Apache Foundation

The results are in on the voting to make OpenOffice.org an Apache Incubator project and the idea got approved, by a majority of voters. There has been some criticism over the idea of turning over OpenOffice source code, now owned by Oracle, to the Apache foundation, while the Document Foundation was carrying on with ...

14 June 2011
10:41 GMT

Apache Gains 21 Million Hostnames in May

Apache continues to be the most popular web server on the internet and is still growing the fastest. Apache added 21 million new hostnames in the last month, a big spike compared to the 12.5 million added in April. However, when it comes to active web servers, Apache only added a couple of hundred of thousands and ac...

13 June 2011
08:41 GMT

Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org to Apache, Reuniting with LibreOffice Possible

After several months of tensions and controversy, Oracle is now announcing that it will be donating OpenOffice.org in its entirety to the Apache Software Foundation to be part of the group's incubator program. The move comes after Oracle's clear disinterest in the office suite along with some moves which hu...

2 June 2011
05:53 GMT

Apache Patches Denial of Service Flaw in HTTP Server

The Apache Project has released version 2.2.18 of its hugely popular web server software package in order to address a vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service condition.The flaw, identified as CVE-2011-0419 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database, is located in the apr_fnmatch() function of ...

14 May 2011
05:51 GMT

Apache Web Server Growth Continues to Outpace Competitors

The Apache web server continues to grow in popularity and it saw the biggest increase in hostnames using it again last month. Apache added 12.5 million hostnames in April, similar to the number it added in March as well. While most other web servers saw gains in the past month, Apache was by far the winner."In the Ma...

3 May 2011
10:10 GMT

10 Million More Websites Used Apache in January

The web ecosystem continued to grow in January, with almost 10 million new hostnames added. There are now a total of 284,842,077 live sites online, up from 273,301,445, a smaller increase than in the previous month but still a sizeable gain. Most of the new hostnames were running Apache, which had a great month, cont...

15 February 2011
11:36 GMT

Yahoo Hadoop to Be Discontinued, Merged into the Main Apache Distribution

Those looking for a platform to mange huge data sets on a large scale will have an easier time choosing, Yahoo has announced that it will be dropping development on its own Hadoop version and instead will start working together more closely with the Apache community and fully supporting Apache Hadoop. The community-d...

2 February 2011
10:24 GMT

Go Daddy Sites Load Faster with Google's Mod_speed Apache Module

Last year, Google revealed the mod_pagespeed module for the Apache web server. The module optimizes a web page's code and resources, making the site load faster. At the time, Go Daddy, one of the largest hosting providers, said it will deploy the module for all its Linux-based servers. The module is now live and...

1 February 2011
05:42 GMT

Nginx Usage Surges in January, as 18 Million New Websites Are Created

The final month of 2010 proved a fruitful one for the creation of new websites, with close to 20 million hostnames created in just the last month. While Apache remains the favorite web server, with a large slice of the market, nginx saw a significant boost in the last month, according to data from Netcraft."nginx onc...

14 January 2011
07:05 GMT

50 Million Websites Created in 2010

The fact that the internet kept on growing in 2010 is not going to surprise anyone. The interesting part though is how much it grew, almost 50 million new websites were created in 2010, according to data from Netcraft. Also interesting, 43 million of the new websites used Apache, which continues to be the most popula...

5 January 2011
06:03 GMT

Google Wave Becomes Apache Wave

While Google is distancing itself from Wave, the project is far from dead. The Apache Software Foundation has now accepted to take the project under its tutelage. Google Wave will become apart of the Apache Incubator program, the first stage in becoming a fully supported project."One of the best outcomes from Novembe...

7 December 2010
04:25 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops – Hind versus Apache

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the new first person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision Blizzard, allowing the player to experience the covert ops conflicts between the United States and Russia during the era of the Cold War.Towards the end of Call of Duty: Black Ops two special operations soldiers, ...

18 November 2010
18:11 GMT

Google Launches 'Mod_pagespeed' Apache Module to Speed Up the Web

Google's love affair with 'speed' is a downright obsession, not that anyone's complaining. The company is not content with speeding up its own products, it wants everyone else to be faster as well and the latest move towards this is a new module for the very popular Apache web server, dubbed mod_p...

4 November 2010
05:25 GMT

Medal of Honor – The Best and the Worst

Medal of Honor is the new first person shooter from developers Danger Close and DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, taking the player to the battlefields of Afghanistan and putting him in the dessert combat boots of a variety of characters that engage the Taliban after the events of September 11, 2001.The section of ...

21 October 2010
18:41 GMT

Yahoo Open-Sources Two New Tools for Hadoop

Yahoo, which has already been Hadoop’s largest contributor, is now releasing a couple of related products as open-source projects at its annual Hadoop Summit. The two tools focus on security and workflow with Hadoop and are based in products used internally already by the giant web company. Yahoo operates the l...

29 June 2010
10:27 GMT

CollabNet Acquires Danube for Agile ALM Interests

Agile application life-cycle management (Agile ALM) leader Danube was acquired for its important stake in the Scrum project management market by fellow company CollabNet, the inventor of the famous version control system platform Subversion. With the two companies merging client and product portfolios, CollabNet is n...

8 March 2010
10:05 GMT

Facebook Becomes an Apache Foundation Gold Sponsor

Facebook isn't exactly known for its open approach, recent privacy changes notwithstanding, but, at least on the software side, it has been working towards giving more back to the development community. Its most recent move in that direction is becoming a Gold sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, the orga...

13 January 2010
09:04 GMT

Apache and Subversion Join Development Forces

Code and application developers are quite acquainted to the “SVN” term. It stands for Subversion, an open source versioning control system used for years in application development. After being quite some time in the making, CollabNet, the main developer and the primary corporate sponsor of the project, h...

6 November 2009
11:12 GMT

Admins Acknowledge Mistakes That Lead to Apache.org Hack

The Apache Infrastructure Team has released a detailed analysis of the recent attack that led to multiple apache.org servers being compromised. After outlining the mistakes that made the incident possible and their plan to strengthen security, the admins have been congratulated by the community for their openness. T...

4 September 2009
09:57 GMT

Apache.org Compromised by Hackers

The Apache Project's Infrastructure Team was forced to take its primary servers offline yesterday, after discovering that unknown hackers uploaded and executed malicious code on them. The attackers apparently used a stolen SSH authentication key associated with a backup account to break in. The attack started d...

29 August 2009
04:01 GMT

Installing Apache 2.2 on Windows Vista SP1 - More Open Source Love from Microsoft

Microsoft has a rather ambiguous relationship with open source. On one hand the Redmond company is avidly competing with members of the OSS community that have adopted the open source business model, throwing its entire weight behind its own proprietary software strategy. And on the other, Microsoft is increasingly f...

15 February 2008
08:51 GMT

Microsoft Gets Cozy with Open Source

The relationship between Microsoft and open source grows deeper and more intimate, as the company is laboring to deliver a high level of comfort for customers, running its own proprietary software along with open source solutions. Microsoft is no longer the poster child for anti-open source, although this image seems...

28 January 2008
10:54 GMT

After Linux, Microsoft Now Shows Some Windows Vista Love to Apache

Securing data from web-based applications is just an aspect of keeping information safe. In this context, an encryption framework will do the trick of keeping sensitive data confidential. And this is where Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security come into play, along with Apache. When it comes down to bridgi...

7 January 2008
06:12 GMT

Google to Unveil "Android" Mobile Platform Today

Google will hold a press conference today, which has high chances of turning into the first occasion for the company to reveal its new mobile platform. Codenamed "Android", this should set the basis for the future handset unveiling that everybody expects from this company.Google made no official statement on what peo...

5 November 2007
03:50 GMT

Install Wordpress

If you want to post your journal online, you can choose one of the several free services provided by Google(Blogpot), Wordpress, Blog.com etc, or you can install a blog script on your webserver. If you don't know how to install a blog on your webserver, I'll explain you how to do it. For starters, let'...

17 September 2007
11:03 GMT

Generate Security Certificates for Apache

If you want to access your website through a secure connection, encrypt your connection using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS). https is a URI scheme used to indicate a secure HTTP connection. It is syntactically identical to the http:// scheme normally used for accessing resources using H...

15 September 2007
07:05 GMT

Create Forums in phpBB3

What is a forum? A forum in a bulletin board system is the section where users will post their topics. To begin, login to Administrator Panel. To create a forum, go to Forums Tab and you will see the default forum, created by setup. If you want to begin from scratch, delete the forum and let`s try to create our own f...

11 September 2007
10:21 GMT

Board Configuration in phpBB3

After you've installed phpBB, you must change a few settings. First, change the settings of the board. Enter the Administration Panel and go to Board Configuration/Board Settings. Here you can change the name of the board(ex: Softpedia Test), the description(ex: Softpedia Install Test Forum), Board Language(in t...

10 September 2007
11:20 GMT

How to Install PHPBB3

PHPBB 3, codenamed "Olympus", is the next version of the popular open source bulletin board. Right now, PHPBB 3 is in the RC stage and the stable version will be available soon. Some of the most important additions for version 3 are:- Attachments - You can add attachments in posts and PMs, you can attach multiple ima...

10 September 2007
10:23 GMT

Create Directories for Every User in Apache

If you want to permit your users to have their own websites in their home directory, you can use UserDir directive. The visitors will access their website using for example the following link: http://www.softpedia.com/~webscripts/ . The visitors will go to the home directory of the user webscripts.The UserDir directi...

6 September 2007
10:54 GMT

Install mod_perl for Apache 2

If you want to use Perl in Apache, the best solution is to install Perl module for Apache: mod_perl. Why do you need to install mod_perl? Because under mod_perl the existing CGI scripts will run faster. Also, converting existing CGI scripts to run under mod_perl is very easy. Also, content handlers can be written in ...

6 September 2007
09:59 GMT

.htaccess commands

.htaccess (Hypertext Access) is the default name of Apache's directory-level configuration file. .htaccess is used to provide security restrictions for a certain directory. The .htaccess file is often accompanied by a .htpasswd file which stores valid usernames and their passwords. With .htaccess you can customi...

30 August 2007
10:14 GMT

Create Loadable Modules for Apache on Windows

The main advantage of Apache is that you can use many Unix modules on Windows platform with no change or changing just a little bit. Other modules depend on aspects of the Unix architecture which are not present in Windows, and will not work.You can add the modules in Apache using two methods. The first is to compile...

30 August 2007
09:10 GMT

Introductory Note on TYPO3

Typo3 is an open source content management system built with PHP and running on MySQL and Apache. Typo3 has 2 main parts: Core and Extensions. The Core is the foundation and Extensions adds specialized functions to the core. Typo3 is very modular, so, if you are a developer, you can quickly create your own extensions...

20 August 2007
10:35 GMT


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