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Monitoring Web Servers Should Never Be Complex

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If you run several web servers in your organization or even public web servers on the internet, you need some kind of monitoring. If your servers go down for some reason, this may not be funny for your colleagues, customer, and even for yourself. Introduction. For that reason, we use monitoring tools.

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Okta + SAML + JBoss EAP 6.4.x + Picketlink

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In this example, we provide authentication to internal users (who are logged in in the customer network) and external users (from the internet) who may be third-party collaborators such as carriers, partners, etc. In this article, I explain how to provide Okta authentication to your web application hosted on a JBoss EAP 6.4.x

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Log4j 2 Vulnerability: Identifying and Minimizing Production Risk

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This means that an attacker with control over a string that gets passed to the log4j 2 logger can trick the application into requesting a resource from a server under the attacker’s control, then load it, and then execute it. Public Internet Exposure. The examples below show two vulnerabilities with an initial critical risk.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

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This method involves providing the lowest level of access by default, deleting inactive accounts, and auditing server activity. For example, ensuring software stacks don’t use default accounts or passwords, error handling doesn’t reveal sensitive information, and application server frameworks use secure settings.

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What Are X-forwarded Headers, and Why Is It Used?

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web browsers) and servers on the internet. These headers allow clients and servers to negotiate and agree on various aspects of communication. For example, headers can specify the format in which the client expects the response data, such as JSON or XML.

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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

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Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

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Log4Shell vulnerability: Identifying and minimizing production risk

Dynatrace

This means that an attacker with control over a string that gets passed to the log4j 2 logger can trick the application into requesting a resource from a server under the attacker’s control, then load it, and then execute it. Public Internet Exposure. The examples below show two vulnerabilities with an initial critical risk.

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