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Supports the UPnP Internet Gateway Device (IGD) specifications and NAT-PMP.

signing linux onto an active directory network

"Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on over 250 serv

Microsoft has just released a free utility to help developers analyze ASP code for SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Earlier this year, several public sites went down when hackers unleashed a series of bots to find and exploit servers where developers did not correctly code their applications/pages to prevent SQL Injection attacks.

After reading this discussion on Slashdot regarding an anti-virus agent pretending to be Internet Explorer and flooding sites with requests I waited to see a response come from an Apache fan on using mod_rewrite to detect and stop the flood of useless traffic coming from these robots. It was sure to come, particularly after the first post in the discussion pointed out how to use an iRule to detect and "nuke from orbit" these nasty little requests. I was not disappointed. It's not the case that the solution won't work. It will, and it's certainly a viable solution. At least if you're only running 2 or 3 web servers. And you don't care about the need to interrupt service to implement the solution. And you aren't worried about potentially introducing errors into the server configuration. And you're aren't running IIS or some other web server. There are a few very good reasons not to use Apache mod_rewrite for this kind of situation.

, others are much worse. I advise you all to take this advisory into immediate consideration if your website sho