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Security Benefits of Reverse Proxying Java / Tomcat WebApps Locally

Conventional wisdom seems to dictate that java applications should always be reverse proxied. It's what I have always done and so has everywhere I have worked at. I have read multiple times that ...
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Tomcat application arbitrary file read exploitation

In recent black-box pen-test of a webapp hosted on CentOS, I found a vulnerability that allowed me to grab contents of files (kind of file inclusion) located within the home path of Tomcat. In ...
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Access encrypted files (dm-crypt/LUKS) through web app

I'm a newbie to encryption issues and I'm trying to sort out a few questions. For a distributed application we need to deploy a server outside of our company with sensitives PDF files on it. That ...
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Is it necessary to update JRE in an Apache Tomcat Server?

We have a Java web application contained in an apache tomcat instance. JRE version is 7.0.51 and Tomcat version is 7.0.42. Users have expressed their concerns about Java 7's support/updates being ...
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