ModSecurity is a web application firewall engine that provides very little protection on its own. In order to become useful, ModSecurity must be configured with rules. In order to enable users to take ...

nginx is the web server that's replacing Apache in more and more of the world's websites. Until now, nginx has not been able to benefit from the security ModSecurity provides. Here's how to install ...

In an increasingly interconnected digital world, web applications are the backbone of online services. With this ubiquity comes a significant risk: web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks.

Many web applications depend on a web-application firewall (WAF) as an important part of their security strategy. There are a few free-software options in the WAF space, but they are all limited in ...

CHANTILLY, Va. , March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Atomicorp today announced the availability of a free version of its next generation of open-source web application firewall rules, known as Free ...

During our research of web application firewall evasion issues, we uncovered a flaw in ModSecurity that may lead to complete bypass of the installed rules, in the cases when ModSecurity is deployed to ...

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The CRS is a set of generic blacklisting rules. Ofer Shezaf started the project almost exactly ten years ago by pulling in regular expressions from various other defense projects and writing new rules ...