Equifax said Wednesday that a months-old but apparently unpatched web server vulnerability enabled the massive data breach that exposed the personal financial information of about half of the US population. Equifax said it identified Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638, a flaw first identified on March 6, as the gateway to the hack. The company located the problem […]
Month: September 2017
How to protect a web server from hurricanes
Enlarge / We could all use a little lightness in the computer world (especially if you lived on the way to Hurricane Harvey). Aurich / Getty Hurricane season 2017 See more stories HOUSTON – I had enough to worry about when Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast of Texas on the night of August 25 […]
How to run a vulnerability scan on your web server with Nikto2
Nikto2 is an easy to install and use website vulnerability scanner. Here’s how to make sure your servers are secure with this free open source scanner. light author, Getty Images / iStockphoto If you administer web servers, you know how critical it is to keep those servers secure. Without regular checks, you could have a […]