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Article Archive for January 2009

Embedded devices can be hacked through the web interface
January 28, 2009 – 5:50 pm | No Comment

Anyone who has tested even a small number of web configuration interfaces on embedded devices, such as managed routers, VoIP gateways and wireless routers, knows that these devices are notorious for web application vulnerabilities. It …

Data mining with Acunetix Blind SQL Injection Tool
January 28, 2009 – 4:59 pm | No Comment

In this presentation we show you how to use the Acunetix Blind SQL Injection tool for data mining.
If an SQL injection is found in a website or web application, as you will see in the …

Free Standalone Acunetix Report Viewer available for download
January 23, 2009 – 8:54 pm | No Comment

The Acunetix Report Viewer is a free standalone application that can be used to view Acunetix report (.pre) files only.
Why should one download the Report Viewer?
The report’s Table of Contents is available in the Report …

Tutorial on how to test for Broken Authentication using Acunetix WVS tools
January 15, 2009 – 5:12 pm | One Comment

Broken authentication is the 7th in the OWASP top 10 web application vulnerabilities. It is a security problem that is prevalent in many web applications, especially custom ones or those written in-house.  Sandro just published …

Acunetix Free Edition Tutorial
January 12, 2009 – 9:40 pm | No Comment

In this tutorial the author shows how to launch a scan against a website and points out the features available in this version.  The author also points out the amount of detail Acunetix WVS reports on …

Image upload forms used to hijack websites
January 7, 2009 – 6:46 pm | 2 Comments

In the past days I came across a stimulating blog post titled “Dissecting a Multistage Web Attack that uses the recent IE7 0day”. The authors described how a vulnerable web application was then able to …