Security Best Practice: Get Yourself Familiar with the Header Rejection Tool

Web servers and applications parse not only the URL, but also the rest of the HTTP header data. Wrong parsing can lead to buffer overrun attacks and other vulnerabilities. Some exploits use the HTTP headers to cause damage. The exploit can be carried in standard headers the Host header for exampl...

Security Best Practice: Familiarize Yourself with the General HTTP Worm Catcher

A worm is a self-replicating malware, which propagates by actively sending itself to new machines. There are worms that propagate by using security vulnerabilities in HTTP servers or clients. Some worms are able to open back doors, launch Trojans, stop security applications and destroy computer...