Microsoft has raised an alarm about a peculiar cybersecurity threat that serves as a warning to all enterprises about open-source software (OSS) supply chain security. The Microsoft Threat ...

One of the defining characteristics of Unix is modularity – the operating system shell provides a set of small and flexible utilities (such as grep, sed and awk) that can be “glued” together to ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Open-source software is literally crucial to the modern world. Without it, many technologies we take for granted couldn't interoperate, and the biggest machine ever built—the internet—simply wouldn't ...

This issue of the Network World on Web Applications newsletter is a milestone: The 800th issue! That means our 900th issue will be Oct. 2 next year and the grand 1,000th issue is due Sept. 16, 2008.

The company announces plans to assemble a package of Java-based open-source tools for building corporate Web applications. The suite will be bundled with Red Hat's version of Linux. Martin LaMonica is ...

The developers behind the popular open-source Web server software Nginx have released updates to patch a serious vulnerability. The vulnerability rates as "highly critical," according to a security ...

If you’re looking for a lightweight, flexible web server for static sites, web apps or containers, Caddy might be just what you want. Jack Wallen shows you how to install this lightning-fast web ...

I'd like to walk you through the complete process of creating an up-to-date open-source server for Ragnarok Online using rAthena. This includes removing all of its security so that it can be accessed ...

Nginx Plus, the commercial edition of the open source Web server that’s elbowed out Apache HTTPD on many top-traffic sites, unveiled its fourth major version today. Officially named Nginx Plus r4, ...

The open-source project has rolled out a security fix for CVE-2021-41773, for which public cyberattack exploit code is circulating. Apache Software has quickly issued a fix for a zero-day security bug ...