Given all the fuss in the news recently about compromised Linux/Apache servers being responsible for infecting Windows users with malware when they visit those compromised sites, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at three of the best rootkit/malware detection tools available for Linux desktop and SOHO users.

There are a few risks and reasons to block certain bots 1) If you use Apache as a proxy spammers may try to use your Apache to "fake" clicks on advertisements on their pages, 2) to send plain old email spam and 3) to steal content from your site and use it as filler on their sites used only to serve out ads. mod_security can prevent all of this.

A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet of sorts and used to distribute malware to unwitting people browsing the web.

Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers are more than twice as likely to deliver malware to unsuspecting users than the open source Apache Web server, according to a recent security survey performed by Internet search giant Google. That's quite an allegation, coming as it does from one of Microsoft's chief competitors.

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A nest of poisoned Web sites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits...The infected groups of servers are running various different flavours of Linux, hosting many different versions of Apache. This means it’s unlikely that the root vulnerability is in Apache.

A mass attack ongoing for the past month against Linux Apache Web servers has become increasingly successful because its break-in method makes use of an automated password and installation process, according to a security researcher monitoring its progress.

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. That's no accident. Linux is eminently better suited to server use than Windows. Why? Let's count the ways.

At Lenovo's press dinner the other night there was an unidentified handheld on display, sitting casually next to the three new consumer-friendly IdeaPad laptops the company had come to Las Vegas to push.

The majority of servers supporting the Fedora Linux distribution were back online on Tuesday following a mystery disruption.