A team of German cybersecurity researchers has discovered a new cache poisoning attack against web caching systems that could be used by an attacker to force a targeted website into delivering error pages to most of its visitors instead of legitimate content or resources.The issue affects reverse proxy cache systems like Varnish and some widely-used Content Distribution … [Read more...] about New Cache Poisoning Attack Lets Attackers Target CDN Protected Sites
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Apple building its own CDN – content delivery network?
As Apple continues to develop its new data centers in North Carolina, Nevada and Oregon, it could have greater plans to develop a content delivery network (CDN) to deliver content to its iTunes and iCloud users. Analyst Dan Rayburn with Frost & Sullivan believes that Apple is looking to expand its CDN capabilities, but it isn't sure just how in-depth the system will … [Read more...] about Apple building its own CDN – content delivery network?