Ransomware authors continue their hunt for new sources of income. After targeting consumer and then business computers, they’ve now expanded their attacks to Web servers. Malware researchers from ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. – FedEx Freight recently put a new face on its Web operations, and so far the company likes what it sees. The large-volume trucking division of FedEx recently installed 15 Red Hat Linux ...

FedEx Freight recently installed 15 Red Hat Linux 7.2 and 7.3 servers running Apache web server to act as a front end to its customer service application, used by businesses that hire Freight to ...

The Basics of Linux & Windows : Linux (and its close relation Unix) and Windows 2000 (and its close cousin Windows NT) are types of software (known as operating systems) that web servers use to do the ...

You've probably seen the headlines: Thousands of Linux servers used in cyber attacks on U.S. banks; Tens of thousand of Apache servers now distributing malware; Massive served-based DDoS attacks are ...

ARIES (Advanced Research on Internet E-Servers) is a project that started at Ericsson Research Canada in January 2000. It aimed at finding and prototyping the necessary technology to prove the ...

Linux may be enjoying great popularity in the mobile arena, thanks to Android–and even on the desktop, to an increasing extent–but there’s no denying its longtime success on servers. With outstanding ...

Ransomware/malware for Linux is not common. This attack is aimed fairly and squarely at the Web hosting community as the majority of Web pages are hosted on Linux servers. This is the first ransomware ...

Pogoplugs are great little storage devices, but they can do more than they let on. Let's take a look at how you can hack a Pogoplug into a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server. This is a fun ...

What a week. I’ve run into some interesting challenges setting up a new combination weblog/magazine site called VarLinux.org, a nonprofit portal dedicated to serving the VAR and channel communities.