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How safe is WSIT username authentication with symmetric key?

I have an ajax-ws web service (exposed via glassfish) that uses username authentication with a symmetric key to encrypt and authenticate clients(link). How secure is this mechanism? Is this enough to ...
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Monitoring for security threats

I host and maintain several websites. The users pay to have their sites maintained and secured. However, with the amount of web applications like joolma, wordpress, ect... and their plugins, I need a ...
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Is it dangerous to serve executable cgi files in public folder?

In the past, Apache used to serve cgi files from cgi-bin folder only, and it was always advised to avoid putting executable files in public folders. However, today's webservers fairly serve executable ...