Updated: Apache servers succumb to four-year-old bug

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Apache Killer denial-of-service tool based on vulnerability discovered in 2007

The Apache project developer community is warning users of its web server software that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool for attacking the popular server system is circulating in the wild. A fix i...

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