Chapter 10. Stage 5: Creating Security Documents, Tools, and Best Practices for Customers
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In mid-2005, one of us (Howard) had a conversation with a Fortune 100 customer about an interesting trend in compromised Web servers. After the CodeRed and Nimda worms (CERT 2001a; CERT 2001b) struck in July and September 2001, respectively, affecting Microsoft Web servers, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 4 and IIS 5 became the most compromised Web servers on the Internet. This led Gartner Vice-President John Pescatore to advise Gartner clients to seriously consider not using either Web server (Gartner 2001) and to use other Web ...
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