Zone-H publishes every year stats of registered attacks. According to those stats the most targeted operation systems are Linux, Windows 2003 and Windows 2000. The most defaced webservers are Apache, IIS/6.0 and IIS/5.0.
References:
Fleximus Blog
Open Source
Piwik: OpenSource Web Analytics
Felix EhlersLooking for an opensource alternative for Google's Google Analytcs software I found Piwik. With Piwik you can create interesting reports about poular pages, used keywords in search engines and obviously about your visitors.
It is licensed under the GPL.
References:
- Piwik Website
- Try it out at the online demo page …
Open Source
Lighttpd 1.4.19 released
Felix EhlersLighttpd 1.4.19 is out! This release is mainly a bugfixing and security release. It is still being worked hard on the 1.5.0 release.
References: Announcement on lighttpd website
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 7.0 released
Felix EhlersThe long awaited FreeBSD 7.0 Release is out. Some highlights include:
- Better scalability and performance improvements on SMP systems (benchmarks showed linear scaling on machines with 8 CPUs)
- Improved the ULE and 4BSD schedulers
- the new and highly scalable memory allocator jemalloc
- Reading of XFS volumes
- experimantal support of …
Open Source
Hiawatha, the most secure webserver
Felix EhlersYesterday I found a webserver wich claims to be the most webserver around. It's a lightweight daemon written in C with securty in mind.
Some interesting features compared to other webservers:
- Cross-site scripting prevention
- DoS/flooding protection
- SQL injection prevention
I will have a closer look on this...
References: Hiawatha …