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.

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 ...

As many as 25,000 web servers infected with Linux malware have been used in the past two years to hit website visitors with two variants of Windows malware. Security researchers in Europe are urging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Linux-based Web sites perform better than those hosted on Windows servers, according to new research. WatchMouse, a Dutch firm that monitors server performance, based its research on a survey of over ...

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 ...

A newly discovered form of malware that targets Linux servers acting as Web servers allows an attacker to directly inject code into any page on infected servers ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

A Web-hosting service recently agreed to pay $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites, the company said recently. “It is very ...