Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in the Web Application Security category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards for the third time in a …

In this short video we give a brief overview of web application security. We will see;

What is the difference between network security and web / web application security?
Why network firewalls and network security scanners are …

An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released.  This build addresses a number of bug fixes , an updated Acunetix Firefox extension and a new security check.

New Security Check:

Test for Cross …

Obviously, cross-site scripting (XSS) is a big problem on the public Web. But there’s another angle to XSS that no one seems to be talking about – at least I’m not seeing anything on it. …

Last week, Larry Suto published a report entitled “Accuracy and Time Costs of Web Application Security Scanner Report”.  I’ve started to investigate in detail the results from this report. And I’ve found a list of …

Although it is not a suggested operation, yes, you can still scan a website which has URL rewrite enabled without specifying any URL rewrite rules in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.  Unlike other scanners, Acunetix WVS …

An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released with a number of new security checks, improvements and bug fixes.
New security checks:

8.3 DOS filename source code disclosure
Apache Tomcat Directory Host Appbase authentication bypass …