If you thought the hacks by Anonymous and AntiSec were bad, boy, are you in for a revelation. This past week brings news that the Apache Web server — the one that powers the majority of the Internet and most websites — has a vulnerability that can be exploited with relatively little effort. The Apache Software Foundation has been working on a fix and has, in the meantime, put out some mitigations that it admits are just stop-gap measures. It’s testing two possible long-term fixes and will send out notifications as soon as they’re ready.
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The Apache Web Server's Not-So-Secret Weakness
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 30, 2011 05:00 AMIf you thought the hacks by Anonymous and AntiSec were bad, boy, are you in for a revelation. This past week brings news that the Apache Web server — the one that powers the majority of the Internet and most websites — has a vulnerability that can be exploited with relatively little effort. The Apache Software Foundation has been working on a fix and has, in the meantime, put out some mitigations that it admits are just stop-gap measures. It’s testing two possible long-term fixes and will send out notifications as soon as they’re ready.