Improvements to the Servlet specification

A while ago Greg Murray (the Servlet specification lead) asked for ideas for Servlet improvements. ...

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Web Security Improvement Ideas

I have been keeping a list of web security improvement ideas for some time now. It's a list that ...

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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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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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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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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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Added Unicode encoding validation

I've just committed the Unicode validation feature to the CVS. It is a very good thing to have if ...

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URL decoding bug fixed

I just fixed a small bug in the URL decoding routine. Apparently, I forgot to add code to convert ...

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Porting mod_security to Windows

With module functioning well on Unix-based platforms I decided to start with the Windows port. The ...

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