Almost two years after first being documented, Web Cache Deception attacks are still a major issue, and they still impact many popular websites. New academic research published this month reveals that ...

A newly discovered attack forces Web cache servers to deliver malicious content to website visitors – and also exposes a major security hole in Mozilla's Firefox browser infrastructure. James Kettle, ...

(1) A folder full of Web pages in the user's computer that is maintained by the Web browser for a period of time. If the local, cached page has not been updated on the Web, it is retrieved immediately ...

"Web cache" refers to any technology that fronts an origin web server and temporarily stores frequently accessed content so that subsequent requests for the same content can be served efficiently. Be ...

Caching servers commonly deployed with big-name services will often cache the incorrect page content, including personal details, when the user accesses a non-existent resource, such as CSS or ...

Why Caching Matters In the early days of the Web, when network traffic was much lower, caching wasn’t as important. But with hundreds of millions of new computers coming onstream every year and most ...

(1) Writing source code with programming structures that align more favorably with memory caches. See cache. (2) Designing a website with Web caching in mind. Various techniques help a Web cache ...