Yet, thousands of US Government and other web servers were successfully attacked in 2000.
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Google App Engine handles all the low-level details of installing web servers, databases, and the like.
That Hivemind of machines floods sites with a steady stream of junk traffic, overwhelming their web servers.
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The September Netcraft survey puts the open source Apache share of web servers at 57 percent.
Industry specific web crawlers or vulnerability discovery bots, network scans, and resource exhaustion attacks against web servers are rampant.
In a DDoS attack, multiple servers send simultaneous requests to the target's Web servers, ultimately causing them to crash.
Its success is no longer limited to basic software, such as Linux or Apache, a program that powers web servers.
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The Spamhaus Project is a nonprofit that patrols the Internet for spammers and publishes a list of Web servers those spammers use.
Microsoft now offers a cheap version of its Windows Server software specifically for use on web servers, to compete better with Linux.
As public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web servers are also growing.
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The Spamhaus Project is a nonprofit organization that patrols the Internet for spammers and publishes a list of Web servers those spammers use.
The problems come only a week after Microsoft Web sites sustained long outages, some of them caused by hackers overloading its Web servers.
There have been many security holes exploited in Web servers belonging to Yahoo Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure.
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The company said it spotted the "unknown virus" earlier this week and took desktop computers, email and web servers offline as it cleaned up.
"We recommend that the government use secure Web servers and do the hygiene, " says Roberto Medrano, general manager of Hewlett-Packard (HWP) 's Internet security division.
The cloud is designed to save hard-drive storage space for users by instead letting them store and retrieve documents to multiple devices from remote Web servers.
He said the server domain is called Houston and that all of Microsoft's Web servers are set up the same way with the same disk image.
It uses the web application acceleration features that F5 usually deploys in front of web servers to allow faster access to those applications in a secure manner.
First, though, some background: Google's Chromebooks are built on the promise of cloud computing, where your files live not on your hard drive but on Web servers.
Resulting improvements are expected to bring benefits to enhance cloud computing, high-performance computing, web servers, transactional databases, and data analytics, while reducing power needs by nearly 10%.
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Mike Kerr, IBM's vice president of products for Web servers, says that the system is intended for companies that have workloads requiring a high degree of scalability.
Developers will be able to create subgroups such as the ability to put all of their file and print servers in one group and their Web servers in another.
It is used for niche tasks, such as running web servers, but it is generally deemed to be too immature for the most demanding environments, such as heavy-duty database systems.
Reuters reports that other web servers for the site may be in the data centers of the French company OVH, though the French government is seeking to have them removed.
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In several recent cases, hackers have infected hundreds of thousands of Web servers with software that performs "drive-by downloads" on any visitor's machine, installing password-stealing Trojans or turning the PC into a spam-spewing zombie.
For the government, a warrant isn't currently required after a certain period of time for older information -- e-mail, social networking profiles or cell-phone location data -- stored "in the cloud" on Web servers.
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