Summary

Recap

• Web servers assume critical importance in the wake of Internet security.

• Vulnerabilities exist in different releases of popular web servers and respective vendors patch these as and when discovered .

• The inherent security risks owing to compromised web servers have impact on the local area networks that host these web sites, and perhaps even the normal users of web browsers.

• Looking through the long list of vulnerabilities that had been discovered and patched over the past few years provide an attacker ample scope to plan attacks to unpatched servers.

• Different tools/exploit codes aids an attacker perpetrate web server hacking.

• Countermeasures include scanning, for existing vulnerabilities and patching them immediately, anonymous access restriction, incoming traffic request screening and filtering.