With the release of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 latest build; 20090728 (https://www.acunetix.com/support/build-history.htm), we announce that Acunetix WVS has better support for web applications with CAPTCHA, single sign-on and Two factor authentication mechanisms. Thanks to the new ‘Manual Intervention’ module, IT security professionals can now save…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
2 of SANS’s top 25 most dangerous programming errors led to more than 1.5 million website security breaches in 2008
Earlier on this year, a report from SANS institute showed that two of the twenty five most dangerous programming errors, led to more than 1.5 million website security breaches in 2008. The report is a joint effort from more than 30 US and international cyber…
Web Application Firewalls do not replace secure development and operation of web applications
In eval($WAF); whitepaper, L. Nothdurfter, W.Neudorfer and M. Kirchner from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, explain in detail how they evaluated the capabilities of some leading WAFs (web application firewall), and concluded that although a WAF can raise the security level, secure development…