On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:36:02 -0800, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Doug Mentohl
> <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:12:01 +0000
> <1ta8shd29cnrj$.rg9jgt174ee0$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> "IIS Web server software were twice as likely to have database
>> vulnerabilities compared to those using Apache"
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yrlwl2
>> http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/08/half-of-online-retailers-vulnerable-to-hackers
>
> Uh...hold it. What the hell is a database vulnerability
> doing in a webserver system?!
>
> My head is beginning to hurt.
Precisely. You've fallen victim to Roy's "selective" quoting and
fraudulent headlines. Read the article, you find that it's talking about
Web applications running under IIS or Apache, not those web servers
themselves.
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