PHP chapter from Apache Security available for download

I have made the PHP chapter from Apache Security available for free download. When we made the ...

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More on impedance mismatch

Recently there has been increased interest in the impedance mismatch problem, which occurs between ...

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The future of web application firewalls

It always pays off to visit Richard Bejtlich's blog once in a while. (Or, even better, subscribe to ...

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External Web Application Protection: Impedance Mismatch

Web application firewalls have a difficult job trying to make sense of data that passes by, without ...

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Mod_security 1.8.7RC2 available

Second release candidate for mod_security 1.8.7 is available for download. I performed a detailed ...

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ModSecurity for Java Milestone 3 now available

I have just released an updated version of ModSecurity for Java. This version implements the core ...

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mod_security and the PHPBB worm (Santy.A)

I have been asked to design a mod_security rule to protect sites from the recent PHPBB worm. Now, I ...

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Portable web firewall rule format

For some time now I've been working on a portable web firewall rule format as part of the OASIS WAS ...

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WASC releases Threat Classification

They've been very quiet for a number of months and now you know what they have been doing - working ...

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AVDL becomes a standard

Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) has been approved as an OASIS standard last ...

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Network Security Hack #93: mod_security

O'Reilly have a new book out: Network Security Hacks. It is a really good book (I read it on Safari ...

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ModSecurity audit log to MySQL parser

Dhillon A. K. has written a new article about mod_security. The article is essentially a brief ...

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Chroot support significantly improved in v1.8

Last night I updated the code that provides the internal chroot functionality in mod_security. I am ...

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Web Application Security Consortium Announced

A new organisation has just been announced: the Web Application Security Consortium. The ...

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Paper on passive information gathering

TechicalInfo.Net is an excellent resource for Web Security information. Gunter Ollmann has provided ...

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AVDL Committee Draft is out

This morning I got news of AVDL becoming a Committee Draft; you can get it here. AVDL (Application ...

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JIRA license for ModSecurity

I am very happy to announce that I've been granted a free JIRA license to use with ModSecurity! I ...

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Free Apache hardening utility

Syhunt, a security tool company from Brazil, have released a free Apache configuration hardening ...

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New Apache module: mod_log_forensic

A new module has been added to the Apache CVS repository: mod_log_forensic. It is a standard module ...

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End of year post!

I thought a post to mark the end of the year would be in order. It has been a very good year for ...

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File interception supported

Building on the multipart/form-data support I added to mod_security the other day, today I added ...

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Multipart support added

Over the weekend I worked on adding the multipart/form-data support to mod_security. As a result, ...

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A milestone reached

I feel like I've reached a new milestone with mod_security. First of all, it is important to note ...

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Updated the Snort rules conversion script

The new version of the script to convert Snort rules into mod_security rules is now available (from ...

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Converted Snort rules to mod_security rules

I wrote a simple Perl script to convert Snort rules to mod_security rules and published the ...

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Enhanced rules now available

The last change before the 1.7 release is now in the CVS. I have refactored the code dealing with ...

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Cookie parsing added

Now you can analyse cookies using new selective filtering variables (COOKIE_name, COOKIE_NAMES, ...

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Masking your web server

There is a new feature available in the CVS, and it allows you to mask your web server and instruct ...

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