When it comes to Web servers, the big two are Apache and Internet Information Server, but their faster, more nimble rival, NGINX is catching up with them.

Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it is examining a critical vulnerability in older editions of Internet Information Services (IIS) server, a day after a hacker posted exploit code online.

Like any web server, when a remote user accesses a webpage, IIS will log the request to log files that contain the timestamp, source IP addresses, the requested URL, HTTP status codes, and more.

I made passing mention of this in the TIL thread but I'm actually trying to figure out how to make this work now. I'm trying to slowly consolidate all of the various applications that have web ...

The final mitigation trick involves disabling Web-based distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV). Microsoft's advisory says that this workaround particularly works for Windows Server 2003 systems ...