Talking About ModSecurity 2.0 With Federico Biancuzzi for SecurityFocus

October 24, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

A while ago Federico Biancuzzi contacted me to ask if I'd be interested to give ...

ModSecurity Cookie and Link Protection Patch

August 18, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

A significant event occurred on the mod-security-users mailing list in July: a ...

ModSecurity Performance Tip

August 18, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I was asked recently to investigate performance of an ModSecurity installation ...

Apache Reverse Proxy Memory Consumption Observations

August 15, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Last week I spent some time stress-testing Apache 2.2.3 configured to work as a ...

ModSecurity 1.9.x Performance Testing

August 08, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

You can tell that I am too busy when I take almost three months to blog about ...

Forrester Research Q2 2006 Web Application Firewall Evaluation

July 25, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Back in March 2006 I was approached by Forrester Research and invited to ...

Yahoo Small Business offers 'ModSecurity-like' functionality

July 13, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I just came across this and can't help but make a note about it: A web hosting ...

ModSecurity 2: Variables, Collections and Transaction Scoring

July 06, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Variables and collections are concepts new to ModSecurity 2. ModSecurity 1.x ...

ModSecurity Console Now Available

July 05, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I love the command line, I do. But there are some tasks where this type of user ...

ModSecurity 2: Explicit Normalisation Options

June 29, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

One of the things I realy dislike in ModSecurity 1.x is that its anti-evasion ...

Secure Browsing Mode Proposal

June 28, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

It's very well known (and even widely accepted) that our current web ...

Jailing Apache On Windows

June 14, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Yury Zaytsev wrote to me recently to tell me about his experiences in jailing ...

Embeddable Web Application Firewalls and Impedance Mismatch

June 13, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Some of you may remember I wrote about impedance mismatch that occurs between ...

ModSecurity for Apache 2.0.0-beta-3 now available!

May 23, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I have been awfully quiet recently, having made my last post to this blog in ...

Apache suEXEC chroot patch

March 28, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I was recently involved with a project where we needed to configure an Apache ...

First development release of ModSecurity 2.x

March 09, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

It's that time of year again, when I get to work on new features (instead of ...

Small but important improvements in ModSecurity 1.9.3

March 08, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I have just released ModSecurity for Apache 1.9.3-rc1, a release candidate, as ...

ModSecurity Elevator Pitch at EUSecWest

February 26, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I spent some time this week at the EUSecWest conference here in London. ...

Web application firewalls primer

January 27, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

(IN)SECURE Magazine Issue 1.5 has just been published. I wrote the cover story, ...

ModSecurity Rules subproject added

January 09, 2006 | SpiderLabs Anterior

If you are a ModSecurity user you may have noticed that I am distributing ...

Massive performance improvements for Apache 1.x users in ModSecurity 1.9.2-rc2

December 24, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Some ModSecurity users like to run really large rule sets, where the number of ...

ModSecurity 1.9 article on O'Reilly Network

December 02, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

My article ("What's New in ModSecurity"), which describes the most important ...

Positive security model in ModSecurity

November 29, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

One of the major improvements in the next release of ModSecurity (v2.0) will be ...

ModSecurity for Apache 1.9 has been released!

November 10, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Finally. I already wrote about many new features available in this release. ...

Draft from the Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria project

October 15, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

The web application firewall (WAF) market is a bit confusing at the moment ...

A few more features made it into ModSecurity 1.9

September 21, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

A small number of new features made it into 1.9 at the very last minute. ...

Apache 2.1.7 beta released

September 14, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

A new beta version of the Apache web server has been released. This release is ...

What's new in ModSecurity 1.9

September 09, 2005 | SpiderLabs Anterior

You may have noticed it's been a while since ModSecurity has had a major ...