THE RECENT PUBLICATION of similar security vulnerabilities in the two most-used Web server software products makes the Web more vulnerable now than ever, Web server information company Netcraft warned.

With over half of the Internet's Web servers potentially vulnerable, conditions are "ripe for an epidemic of attacks" against sites running Microsoft Corp. Internet Information Server (IIS) or the open-source Apache Web server software, Netcraft of Bath, England, said in its monthly Web Server survey released Monday. 

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