Stealthy malware spreading among popular Web servers

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	Stealthy malware spreading among popular Web servers A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why. Last week, security companies Eset and Sucuri found Apache servers infected with Linux/Cdorked. If that malware is running on a Web server, victims are redirected to another website that tries to compromise their computer. Eset said on Tuesday it has now found versions of Linux/Cdorked engineered for the Lighttpd and Nginx Web servers, both widely used across the Internet. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Optimizing the Network The network has become a utility that users can't do without. Mobility and bandwidth-hungry apps demand faster and more efficient networks. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft to boost authoring, editing features in Office Web Apps An H-1B jobs database the tech industry may hate Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise WHITE PAPER: ServiceNow Making IT Support Social When IT organizations utilize social media, it can efficiently help more people inside and outside the data center quickly access more services and knowledge. Read Now! Microsoft to boost authoring, editing features in Office Web Apps Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-authoring of documents and the ability to run in Android tablets via mobile Chrome browser support.The planned enhancements, scheduled for release at some point in the next 12 months, are part of a shift in the way Microsoft views Office Web Apps, the company said Tuesday. Read More An H-1B jobs database the tech industry may hate Within the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is a proposal to create a database that may shed new light on H-1B hiring. The intent of the database is to help improve the odds that a U.S. worker may get hired over a foreign worker. But the bill's effectiveness may rise and fall on fuzzy terms, such as "preference" and "good faith" hiring, and its enforcement provisions. This is where the legislative battle may be fought. Read More Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers. Identified as CVE-2013-2028, the vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow and was first introduced in the Nginx 1.3.9 development version back in November 2012. The flaw is also present in the 1.4.0 stable version released last month. Read More Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves. Downdetector.com, which rolled out in the U.S. last month, sees itself as "the weatherman for the digital world," by detecting outages and interruptions on cellphone networks, banking services, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and business services such as Salesforce.com. Read More Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market. The company's newest machine, the Cray XC30-AC, starting at $500,000, was built for midsized organizations that need some supercomputing muscle for research and development, though don't require a system that takes up half a data center. Read More
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