Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popular open-source tools for the distributed NoSQL database. […] Continue reading Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

GhostCat: New High-Risk Vulnerability Affects Servers Running Apache Tomcat

If your web server is running on Apache Tomcat, you should immediately install the latest available version of the server application to prevent hackers from taking unauthorized control over it.

Yes, that’s possible because all versions (9.x/8.x/7.x/6… Continue reading GhostCat: New High-Risk Vulnerability Affects Servers Running Apache Tomcat

can one obtain a file listing from a protected directory when one has not authenticated

I am monitoring a webdav service that has been probed repeatedly since the beginning of February. The Apache 2.4 httpd server hosts just this one application. Access to the application is only possible over https and is controlled by an … Continue reading can one obtain a file listing from a protected directory when one has not authenticated

.htaccess File Changed – Question About Possible Breach Or Default Defense Mechanism

Today I got reports about one of my websites becoming inaccessible. I’ve come to learn that at the time we were under DDOS attack.

After getting through that, the website started throwing a permission denied error, so I narrowed it down t… Continue reading .htaccess File Changed – Question About Possible Breach Or Default Defense Mechanism