Apache Penetration in Asia
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It's interesting to see that Malaysia is one of the few countries where IIS is dominant. But it's not a big surprise because Microsoft is very strongly entrenched in the Malaysian IT mindset, definitely more so than in Europe or US. And although i'm a long-time IIS supporter, these figures have made me realize that we don't really care either way. A rough mental count tells me that 30% of our websites are on IIS, and 70% on Apache.    Rank Country Apache% IIS%   1 Japan 73 9   2= Indonesia 70 23   2= Korea 70 25   - Global average 67 21   4= Philippines 60 24   4= New Zealand 60 30    6 Pakistan 57 28   7= Thailand 54 38   7= Australia 54 38    9 Taiwan 47 46   10 Singapore 45 40   11 Malaysia 42 51   12 India 41 49   13 China 35 56
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Domain registrars are getting ready for what they hope is a high-demand, frantic "landrush" of domain registrations, beginning today as .asia moves toward becoming the Internet's second regional top-level domain.
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Some 40 percent of the world's Net-borne malware launched from China in June -- nearly doubling May's percentage. Australia and Spain also made no friends in Network Box's monthly survey. But a curious competition is underway in some quarters.
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A mass attack ongoing for the past month against Linux Apache Web servers has become increasingly successful, according to a security researcher monitoring its progress.
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A distributed multi-protocol load testing tool.
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(InfoWorld) - Middleware vendor BEA Systems Inc. will lay out its Java virtualization strategy later this week in China, an approach the vendor hopes will differentiate it from its competitors. At its BEAWorld user conference in Beijing from Wednesday to Thursday, the company will announce a product road map for software due out in 2007 and aimed at optimizing how enterprise Java applications run in virtualized environments. The move has been driven by customer demand, according to Guy Churchward, vice president of WebLogic products at BEA. Users are looking for ways to improve on the more general-purpose server virtualization capabilities already provided by vendors such as EMC Corp., XenSource Inc. and Microsoft Corp. "Customers were running into challenges around efficiency, optimization and performance," he said. Come the first quarter of next year, BEA plans to release WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (WLS-VE), a version of its Java application server that includes the vendor's new Liquid VM technology. Liquid VM is a BEA-specific Java Virtual Machine that enables Java applications to run directly on a hypervisor without requiring an operating system to be present. Initially, Liquid VM will work only with VMware's ESX Server hypervisor, but BEA plans to support other hypervisors in future including those from XenSource and Microsoft, Churchward said. Being able to run Java applications virtually without recourse to an operating system will enable users to substantially reduce the amount of computer power, enabling them to lower the hardware costs per application. Drawing a comparison betweenÂ VMware's current approach towards application virtualization and BEA's new take, Churchward gave an analogy about moving house. VMware's like a removal firm that comes in and packages up the entire contents of a person's house and transports it using massive trucks. "Once you open the boxes at your new place, you discover you don't need 60 percent of it," he said. BEA's approach resembles an individual taking the time to go through all their possessions prior to moving and throwing away what they don't need, therefore requiring smaller vans to transport their belongings. "BEA's approach directly targets Java infrastructure flexibility, which has not always been the platform's core strength," James Governor, analyst with RedMonk, wrote in an e-mail interview. He believes the vendor is the first among the major middleware vendors to go down this path, but points to smaller companies Cassatt Corp. and DataSynapse Inc., which are already pursuing what he terms "a virtualize/automate/WebLogic strategy." Due out in the summer of 2007 is Liquid Operations Control (LOC), BEA software to manage and control Java applications running on virtualized infrastructure. While users can combine LOC and Liquid VM to improve their WebLogic virtualization capabilities, BEA intends to widen LOC's scope so it can be applied to all enterprise Java applications, Churchward said, including support for the Apache Software Foundation's Tomcat technology. Moving to manage other Java application servers is a course BEA has already begun to pursue, Governor wrote. "It's the right strategy, which BEA could dramatically accelerate by purchasing Covalent," he added. Open-source company Covalent Technologies Inc. provides products and services for Tomcat and other Apache software including the Axis Web service framework and Geronimo application server. Â
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51109)  has announced the addition of Chemicals in Asia-Pacific to their offering  The Chemicals in Asia-Pacific industry profile is an essential resource  for top-level data and analysis covering the Chemicals industry.
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Apache and the Domino Effect Poor configuration of Apache servers allowed multiple websites hosted on the same physical server to become infected in last month's Mpack compromise.â¦
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Asia is set to overtake Europe&#39;s  early lead in adopting mobile television broadcasting as Europe  struggles to find available airwaves for broadcasts, industry  executives at an Asian trade fair said this week.
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MUMBAI: Another American bastion falls to the Chinese Dragon. China has announced today the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet, Cernet2 (China Education and Research Network).
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(InfoWorld) - Online attackers have briefly disrupted service on at least two of the 13 "root" servers that are used to direct traffic on the Internet. The attack, which began Tuesday at about 5:30 a.m. Eastern time, was the most significant attack against the root servers since an October 2002 DDoS attack, said Ben Petro, senior vice president of services with Internet service provider Neustar. Root servers manage the Internet's DNS, used to translate Web addresses such as Amazon.com into the numerical IP addresses used by machines. The attack appeared to have been launched by a group of compromised PCs, called a botnet, Petro said. "Two of the root servers suffered badly, although they did not completely crash; some of the others also saw heavy traffic," said John Crain, chief technical officer with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The two hardest-hit servers are maintained by the U.S. Department of Defense and ICANN, he added. The botnet briefly overwhelmed these servers with useless requests, causing them to occasionally hang, but did not disrupt Internet service, Petro said. By 10:30 a.m., Internet service providers were able to filter enough of the traffic from the botnet machines that traffic to and from the root servers was essentially back to normal. Compared to other DDoS attacks, this one did not have a lot of firepower. Petro said the bandwidth of the attack could be measured in megabytes, as opposed to the gigabyte-level attacks that are now frequently seen. "It was a small attack, but it was focused and targeted at the roots," he said. It is unclear where the attack originated, Crain said. "The effect of this traffic on the end users was negligible," he added. Petro said engineers are still "scratching their heads" about the reason for the attack. Although some DDoS attacks are launched for political reasons or to extort money from Web site owners, this one appeared to have no such purpose, he said. Crain ventured a guess as to the attack's effect, however. "I suspect that the largest effect of the DNS traffic was to deprive some engineers of sleep and generate press," he wrote.
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Applications for domain names under the new ".asia" top-level domain will be accepted in October.
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Waves began pummeling southern Thailand about an hour after the earthquake Sunday. After 2Â½ hours, the torrents had traveled some 1,000 miles and slammed into India and Sri Lanka.
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Networking giant Cisco Systems this week announced plans for increased investment in Asia, including a new research and development facility in China and a venture investment program in India.
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(InfoWorld) - Web sites running Microsoft's Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicious code as other Web sites, according to research from Google. Last month, Google's Anti-Malware team looked at 70,000 domains that were either distributing malware or hosting attack code and made the finding. "Compared to our sample of servers across the Internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often as a malware-distributing server," wrote Google's Nagendra Modadugu, in a Tuesday blog posting. Together, IIS (Internet Information Services) and Apache servers host about 89 percent of all Web sites, but collectively, they're responsible for 98 percent of all Web-based malware. Google actually found an equal number of Apache and IIS Web sites hosting malicious software, but because there are so many more sites hosted by Apache servers (66 percent versus Microsoft's 23 percent) malicious sites make up a much larger percentage of all IIS servers. Modadugu didn't draw any conclusions about whether this means that Microsoft servers are more likely to be hacked. "It is important to note that while many servers serve malware as a result of a server compromise ... some servers are configured to serve up exploits by their administrators," Modadugu wrote. Google also found that the malware server of choice varied from region to region. In China and South Korea, for example, the majority of malicious Web sites are running IIS. In the U.S., Russia, and Germany, however, Apache is the predominant malware server. Modadugu speculated that the servers in China and South Korea may be running pirated software and thus unable to get Microsoft's latest security updates. According to one security researcher, the fact that IIS is so easy to use may account for Google's findings. It's easier to operate an ISS Web server than an Apache Web server, said Cesar Cerrudo, CEO of security research firm Argeniss. "People who are not too skilled will install Windows and set up a Web server with weak configuration." But Cerrudo said that more information would be required to draw any solid conclusions about the security of IIS. "The report says that 70,000 domains were examined, but what about if 5,000 domains are in the same Web server in China?" he asked. "It's pretty easy playing with numbers and concluding. A lot of more data is needed to get the right conclusions." Microsoft and Apache did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
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Okay, I'm not seriously suggesting Microsoft is paying off Netcraft to produce positive survey results (although this is certainly a standard operating procedure for Microsoft). But something is odd, if not rotten, in the state of Netcraft.  I have often cited Netcraft web server surveys as evidence that open source beats closed source. The Netcraft surveys almost always showed Apache leading Microsoft IIS by a wide margin, and showed Apache growing as Microsoft IIS market share was shrinking.  Lately, however, Netcraft began to claim that Apache market share has been shrinking rapidly while Microsoft IIS has been gaining the market share lost by Apache. Netcraft even proposed that, "Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position."  Microsoft IIS may displace Apache as the most-used web server?  Could this really be true, or is this reporting from the Bizarro world?  And does anyone else find the wording rather odd?  "Windows" may challenge Apache?  Huh?
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Lukas Smith is sending a wakeup call to the internet providers and web hosters out there - get involved in the PHP community!   We do not seem to have any ISP's active inside the PHP community. This is kind of odd, considering that PHP seems to be driving the business of hosters quite a bit. Why have none of them decided that PHP is important enough for their business that its worthwhile to ensure that their interests are taken into account?   He makes the suggestion of passing along the suggestion to bosses/co-workers/anyone who'll listen about getting involved. Suggested places to start would be as a part of the testers group or even contributing to the migration guide.