Webserver

Security

Zone-H statistic report 2005-2007

2008-03-18 Felix Ehlers

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: Zone-H.org - Statistics report 2005-2007

Lighttpd 1.4.19 released

2008-03-11 Felix Ehlers

Lighttpd 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

Hiawatha, the most secure webserver

2008-02-11 Felix Ehlers

Yesterday 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 preventionDoS/flooding protectionSQL injection prevention I will have a closer look on this… References: Hiawatha homepage Hiawatha on FreeBSD, article by Dru Lavigne