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ChannelZone: Making Web Servers Safer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 15, 2004

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“As you no doubt know, the latest Internet Explorer exploit,
Download.Ject, escalates security problems to the
lose-your-life-savings point for users. Do business with an
infected bank site and user keystrokes get logged and sent to a
‘bad guy’ server. Yow!

“As of this writing, nobody knows exactly how the Windows-based
IIS was infected, except the perpetrators. It appears that even
some fully patched servers were affected. Worse still, it’s not
clear how to prevent this kind of IIS attack from happening
again…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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