ModSecurity for Apache 2.0.0-beta-3 now available!
I have been awfully quiet recently, having made my last post to this blog in late March. I have a ...
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Apache suEXEC chroot patch
I was recently involved with a project where we needed to configure an Apache server that was ...
Read MoreFirst development release of ModSecurity 2.x
It's that time of year again, when I get to work on new features (instead of supporting the old ...
Read MoreSmall but important improvements in ModSecurity 1.9.3
I have just released ModSecurity for Apache 1.9.3-rc1, a release candidate, as I always do when ...
Read MoreModSecurity Elevator Pitch at EUSecWest
I spent some time this week at the EUSecWest conference here in London. EUSecWest is a ...
Read MoreWeb application firewalls primer
(IN)SECURE Magazine Issue 1.5 has just been published. I wrote the cover story, titled "Web ...
Read MoreModSecurity Rules subproject added
If you are a ModSecurity user you may have noticed that I am distributing ModSecurity without any ...
Read MoreMassive performance improvements for Apache 1.x users in ModSecurity 1.9.2-rc2
Some ModSecurity users like to run really large rule sets, where the number of rules runs into ...
Read MoreModSecurity 1.9 article on O'Reilly Network
My article ("What's New in ModSecurity"), which describes the most important improvements in 1.9, ...
Read MorePositive security model in ModSecurity
One of the major improvements in the next release of ModSecurity (v2.0) will be the support for a ...
Read MoreModSecurity for Apache 1.9 has been released!
Finally. I already wrote about many new features available in this release. Relieved from the ...
Read MoreDraft from the Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria project
The web application firewall (WAF) market is a bit confusing at the moment since it is not clear ...
Read MoreA few more features made it into ModSecurity 1.9
A small number of new features made it into 1.9 at the very last minute. Initially I intended to ...
Read MoreApache 2.1.7 beta released
A new beta version of the Apache web server has been released. This release is important because it ...
Read MoreWhat's new in ModSecurity 1.9
You may have noticed it's been a while since ModSecurity has had a major release. This does not ...
Read MorePortable Web Application Firewall Rule Format News
As some of you may know, I've been working on the portable web application firewall (WAF) rule ...
Read MoreMajor updates to ModSecurity in 1.9dev3
This version implements the final batch of major improvements to the 1.9.x series. These include a ...
Read MoreImprovements to the Servlet specification
A while ago Greg Murray (the Servlet specification lead) asked for ideas for Servlet improvements. ...
Read MoreWeb Security Improvement Ideas
I have been keeping a list of web security improvement ideas for some time now. It's a list that ...
Read MorePHP chapter from Apache Security available for download
I have made the PHP chapter from Apache Security available for free download. When we made the ...
Read MoreMore on impedance mismatch
Recently there has been increased interest in the impedance mismatch problem, which occurs between ...
Read MoreThe future of web application firewalls
It always pays off to visit Richard Bejtlich's blog once in a while. (Or, even better, subscribe to ...
Read MoreExternal Web Application Protection: Impedance Mismatch
Web application firewalls have a difficult job trying to make sense of data that passes by, without ...
Read MoreMod_security 1.8.7RC2 available
Second release candidate for mod_security 1.8.7 is available for download. I performed a detailed ...
Read MoreModSecurity for Java Milestone 3 now available
I have just released an updated version of ModSecurity for Java. This version implements the core ...
Read Moremod_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 ...
Read MorePortable 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 ...
Read MoreWASC 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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