http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Apache Thu, 26 May 2005 10:59:04 -0700 Thu, 26 May 2005 10:59:14 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Microsoft+and+Apache+-+What%27s+the+Angle%3F/cbo7t A week ago, we discussed Microsoft's contribution to the Apache Foundation. Now, Bruce Perens has written an analysis "exploring the new relationship of Microsoft and the Apache project, how it works as an anti-Linux move on Microsoft's part, and what some of the Open Sourcers are going to do about having Microsoft as a rather untrustworthy partner." In particular, he notes: "...Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction. Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code. Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of the project's software with engineered incompatibility and no available source, just as they forced incompatibility into the Web by installing IE with every Windows upgrade."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/2214225&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/08/01/2214225"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/2214225&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=9J84y9"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=9J84y9" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/353077307" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:01:20 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Microsoft+Blesses+LGPL%2C+Joins+Apache+Foundation/cbidb Penguinisto writes "According to a somewhat jaw-dropping story in The Register, it appears that Microsoft has performed a trifecta of geek-scaring feats: They have joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Platinum member(at $100K USD a year), submitted LGPL-licensed patches for ADOdb, and have pledged to expand their Open Specifications Promise by adding to the list more than 100 protocols for interoperability between its Windows Server and the Windows client. While I sincerely doubt they'll release Vista under a GPL license anytime soon, this is certainly an unexpected series of moves on their part, and could possibly lead to more OSS (as opposed to 'Shared Source') interactivity between what is arguably Linux' greatest adversary and the Open Source community." (We mentioned the announced support for the Apache Foundation earlier today, as well.)<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/2135202&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/25/2135202"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/2135202&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=jnsyyV"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=jnsyyV" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/346074416" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:44:07 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Microsoft+Sponsors+Apache+Software+Foundation/cbh90 gbjbaanb writes "Ars Technica reports that Microsoft is to sponsor the Apache Foundation to the tune of $100k. From the article: 'I asked him if this could possibly be the beginning of a broader initiative by Microsoft to increase Apache compatibility with .NET web development technologies, but he says it's still too early to guess Microsoft's future plans for Apache participation. ... He doesn't anticipate a confrontational response from the developers working on individual Apache projects ... The response of the broader open source software community, however, is harder to predict.' (In related news, MS also intends to participate in the RubySpec project.)"<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/1913257&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/07/25/1913257"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/1913257&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=M8GtA4"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=M8GtA4" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/345975644" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:44:07 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/ApacheCon+Europe%2708+Live+Video+Streaming/b33vq os2man writes "ApacheCon Europe 2008, the official user conference of the Apache Software Foundation will be held 7 April through 11 April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some of the tracks will be broadcast via live streaming: System Administration (Wednesday), Web Security (Thursday) and Web Services and Web 2.0 (Friday). There's a 99 euro registration fee for the tracks, although all keynote sessions and the opening plenary are available free of charge."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/05/144248&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/04/05/144248"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/05/144248&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=MvAvQs"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=MvAvQs" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/264593191" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:44:27 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/ApacheCon+Europe%2708+live+video+streaming/b33uy os2man writes "ApacheCon Europe 2008, the official user conference of the Apache Software Foundation will be held 7 April through 11 April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some of the tracks will be broadcasted via live streaming: System Administration (Wednesday), Web Security (Thursday) and Web Services and Web 2.0 (Friday). There's a 99 euros registration fee for the tracks, although all keynote sessions and the opening plenary are available free of charge."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/05/144248&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=Yw865a"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=Yw865a" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/264593191" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:44:26 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Breakdowns+of+Website+Defacement+by+Platform/b3odl SkiifGeek writes "Zone-H have recently posted the statistical breakdown of the collected website defacements from the last few years. Surprisingly, in 2007 more Linux servers suffered a successful attack than all versions of Windows, combined. Similarly, more Apache installations were successfully attacked than all IIS versions combined. A day after posting this data, Zone-H have questioned the appropriateness of continuing to operate the archive. Despite the valuable information that can be gleaned from the service, it may soon be lost to the world. The natural successor to the now-defunct Alldas archive of defaced websites, Zone-H's archive maintains records of over 2.6 million defaced sites but may be shut down due to the continuous accusations of impropriety leveled against them any time they disclose and mirror a reported defacement."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/1246248&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/03/15/1246248"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/1246248&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=P0KWPO"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=P0KWPO" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/251972147" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:41:24 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Breakdowns+of+Websight+Defacement+by+Platform/b3oc1 SkiifGeek writes "Zone-H have recently posted the statistical breakdown of the collected website defacements from the last few years. Surprisingly, in 2007 more Linux servers suffered a successful attack than all versions of Windows, combined. Similarly, more Apache installations were successfully attacked than all IIS versions combined. A day after posting this data, Zone-H have questioned the appropriateness of continuing to operate the archive. Despite the valuable information that can be gleaned from the service, it may soon be lost to the world. The natural successor to the now-defunct Alldas archive of defaced websites, Zone-H's archive maintains records of over 2.6 million defaced sites but may be shut down due to the continuous accusations of impropriety leveled against them any time they disclose and mirror a reported defacement."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/15/1246248&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=fcPBWg"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=fcPBWg" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/251972147" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:41:20 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Mystery+Malware+Affecting+Linux%2FApache+Web+Servers/b1q4x lisah writes "Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache are unwittingly infecting thousands of computers, exploiting vulnerabilities in QuickTime, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows. One way to tell if your machine is infected is if you're unable to create a directory name beginning with a numeral. Since details are still sketchy, the best advice right now is to take proactive steps to secure your servers. 'We asked the Apache Software Foundation if it had any advice on how to detect the rootkit or cleanse a server when it's found. According to Mark Cox of the Apache security team, "Whilst details are thin as to how the attackers gained root access to the compromised servers, we currently have no evidence that this is due to an unfixed vulnerability in the Apache HTTP Server." We sent a similar query to Red Hat, the largest vendor of Linux, but all its security team could tell us was that "At this point in time we have not had access to any affected machines and therefore cannot give guidance on which tools would reliably detect the rootkit."'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/24/1930207&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/01/24/1930207"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/24/1930207&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=6OSmt9"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=6OSmt9" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/222476473" height="1" width="1"/> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:17 -0800 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Yahoo+Becomes+Apache+Platinum+Sponsor/bxk46 jschauma writes "Yahoo published a press release announcing that it has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. In their company blog, Yahoo points out their particular interest in the Apache projects Lucene and Hadoop, and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)"<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0255251&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://apache.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=07/12/17/0255251"></a></p><p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/0255251&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=RvXB3c"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=RvXB3c" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/201443461" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:47:12 -0800 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Apache+Comes+With+Too+Much+Community+Overhead%3F/bq5hn drizzle writes "There's an interesting story on the Apache Marketing blog about whether or not Apache projects come with too much overhead, especially compared with other services or a roll-your-own approach. The article states, 'It's true that compared with SourceForge, Apache has a more rigorous management structure. The ASF has formalized processes and procedures that we believe represent best practices governance. All new projects must pass through an incubation period to ensure that all of the project's members have internalized these processes. However, each project's leadership has a tremendous amount of discretion in managing within this framework.' There is also a follow up article written by one of the httpd developers about 'What Apache brings to the table.' The article cites community, experience, legal framework, diversity, brand strength, and networking as reasons why developers and companies should consider bringing their projects over to Apache."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/2010223&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=3P9rNj"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=3P9rNj" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76615119"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:53 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Apache+2.2.0+Released/bq5hm ikewillis writes "According to an announcement on apache.org, Apache 2.2.0 has been released. From the announcement: 'This version of Apache is a major release and the start of a new stable branch. New features include Smart Filtering, Improved Caching, AJP Proxy, Proxy Load Balancing, Graceful Shutdown support, Large File Support, the Event MPM, and refactored Authentication/Authorization.' View the ChangeLog or check out the new feature list."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/02/0124224&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=PAhqyS"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=PAhqyS" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76530190"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:52 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/LAMP+Lights+the+OSS+Security+Way/bq5hl Kevin Young wrote to mention a ZDNet article which goes into some detail on new results from a Department of Homeland security initiative. It's called the 'Open Source Hardening Project', and (funded to the tune of $1.24 Million) the goals of the initiative are to use a commercial tool for source code analysis to buck up the security base of many OSS projects. LAMP (the conglomeration of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python) was a 'winner' in the eyes of the project. From the article: "In the analysis, more than 17.5 million lines of code from 32 open-source projects were scanned. On average, 0.434 bugs per 1,000 lines of code were found, Coverity said. The LAMP stack, however, 'showed significantly better software quality," with an average of 0.29 defects per 1,000 lines of code, the technology company said.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/07/1338223&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=VUqt2S"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=VUqt2S" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76509028"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:50 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/SCO+Offers+Up+The+%27SCAMP%27+Stack/bq5hk Robert wrote to mention a Computer Business Review Online article about SCO's newest marketing tactic. They're offering their OS as part of a 'SCAMP' stack, ala the more familiar LAMP setup. From the article: "The Lindon, Utah-based Unix vendor has included the open source Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP and Perl programming languages with its SCO OpenServer operating system since the launch of OpenServer 6 in June 2005. It is now pitching the technologies as a SCAMP stack, placing it squarely up against the Linux-based LAMP stack. SCO claims that Linux contains Unix code donated to the open source operating system in violation of agreements between it and IBM Corp."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/14/1347224&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=L3DLld"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=L3DLld" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76521294"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:49 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Ask+Apache+Software+Chairman+Greg+Stein/bq5hj Here's a man who obviously has his finger on the pulse of open source software development. I mean, who hasn't heard of Apache? His work history is interesting, too: He's moved from Microsoft to CollabNet to Google. And he's not shy about speaking his mind about open source, as shown in this ZDNet blog entry. Please try to confine yourself to one question per post. (If you have more than one question, post more than once.) We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Greg tomorrow and run his answers when we get them back.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/1427238&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=FiWRHD"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=FiWRHD" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76521291"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:48 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Apache+down%2C+IIS+up/bq5hi Doctor Memory writes "Netcraft's June 2006 web server survey is out, and it shows IIS taking a dramatic upturn, at the expense of Apache. One of the biggest reasons cited is domain registrar Go Daddy switching to IIS for the domains it "parks". The report does go on to note that IIS is also making solid gains in active sites (including some large blog hosts), and further notes that it appears that large hosting companies are dropping Linux." Statistics are fun to play with, of course, but note that Apache's market share is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/1444205&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=sauUv8"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=sauUv8" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/76627634"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:48 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/OSS+on+Windows+the+Next+Big+Thing%3F/bq5hh Lam1969 writes "Linux geeks and Microsoft have similar interests, says Computerworld: They both are interested in seeing open-source software succeed. Linux geeks admit that the open source OS isn't necessarily a better platform for important applications, and Microsoft recognizes that many of its customers are using open-source applications, and doesn't want to alienate them." From the article: "Faced with the allure of inexpensive open-source applications among its core customer base of small to midsize businesses, Microsoft has toned down its rhetoric. 'It's a myth that open-source and Windows can't work together. Customers just aren't religious about these things,' said Ryan Gavin, a director of platform strategy for Microsoft."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/1439209&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=TL2JTp"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=TL2JTp" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/6531678"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:47 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Speed+Up+Sites+with+htaccess+Caching/bq5hg produke writes "Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!"<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/04/1342242&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=0COdu2"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=0COdu2" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/57100839"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:47 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Mash+Apache+Derby+with+New+OpenOffice+2.0+feature/bq5hf An anonymous reader writes "Document storage is hot, hot, hot! There has been an explosion of methodologies and tool sets &mdash; both open source and proprietary &mdash; to fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents. Mash Apache Derby with a new OpenOffice 2.0 feature to create a repository that lets you store, search, and extract ODF documents in a standards-based manner."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/12/1553211&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=gxqvfv"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=gxqvfv" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/89833711"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:46 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Sun+Offering+Optimized+AMP+Stack+On+Solaris/bq5he tbray writes "This is your friendly local Sun corporate drone reporting that we're going to be building and optimizing and DTrace-ing and shipping and supporting the AMP part of LAMP (details here). I think that basically the whole tech industry, excepting Microsoft, is now at least partly in the AMP camp."<p><a href="http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/197252&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=NXmFjM"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=NXmFjM" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/90363735"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:46 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/%2416%2C000+Bounty+for+Sendmail%2C+Apache+Zero-Day+Flaws/bq5hd Famestay writes "Verisign's iDefense is putting up a $16,000 prize for any hacker who can find a remotely exploitable vulnerability in six critical Internet infrastructure applications. The bounty is for a zero-day code execution hole on the following Internet infrastructure technologies: Apache httpd, Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) daemon, Sendmail SMTP daemon, OpenSSH sshd, Microsoft Internet Information (IIS) Server and Microsoft Exchange Server. 'Immunity founder Dave Aitel, who also purchases flaws and exploits for use in the CANVAS pen testing tool, says its doubtful iDefense will get any submissions from hackers. "It's very hard to exploit [those listed applications]," Aitel said. "IIS 6 hasn't had a public remotely exploitable bug in it. Ever." Several other hackers I spoke to had very much the same message, arguing that $16,000 can never equate to the amount of work/expertise required to find and exploit a hole in the six targeted technologies.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/18/189208&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=28tfCf"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=28tfCf" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/117783247" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:45 -0700 http://swik.net/Apache/Slashdot+-+Apache/Optimize+PHP+and+Accelerate+Apache/bq5hc An anonymous reader writes "As the load on an application increases, the bottlenecks in the underlying infrastructure become more apparent in the form of slow response to user requests. This article discusses many of the server configuration items that can make or break an application's performance and focuses on steps you can take to optimize Apache and PHP."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/27/1243236&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?a=WenFcH"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Slashdot/slashdotApache?i=WenFcH" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApache/~4/120053620" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:20:44 -0700