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Why all the hoopla over the Twitter onMouseOver flaw?
September 27, 2010 – 8:21 pm | One Comment
Why all the hoopla over the Twitter onMouseOver flaw?

The recent publicity and ranting about Twitter’s onMouseOver flaw* got me thinking about our perception of software quality and expectations of risk. Why is there no room for error when Twitter makes a mistake yet …

Acunetix WVS Version 7 build 20100921 released
September 22, 2010 – 11:29 pm | 2 Comments
Acunetix WVS Version 7 build 20100921 released

An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 has been released.  Apart form a number of improvements and bug fixes, this build will also automatically check for the latest OpenX OFC file upload and the …

How to check if your application is vulnerable to the ASP.NET Padding Oracle Vulnerability
September 22, 2010 – 5:04 pm | 9 Comments
How to check if your application is vulnerable to the ASP.NET Padding Oracle Vulnerability

Everybody’s talking about the ASP.NET Padding Oracle vulnerability released a few days ago at the ekoparty Security Conference. However, until now there wasn’t enough information on how do you check if your application is …

Why do so many people buy into “checklist” audits?
September 20, 2010 – 9:23 pm | One Comment
Why do so many people buy into “checklist” audits?

Probably my biggest pet peeve related to application security is the claim by many (typically management) that “We know we’re secure, we just had an audit”. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen …

Directory Traversal in Axigen v7.4.1 running on Windows
September 14, 2010 – 5:03 pm | One Comment
Directory Traversal in Axigen v7.4.1 running on Windows

We are continuing with the list of security vulnerabilities found in a number of web applications while testing our latest version of Acunetix WVS v7 . In this blog post, we will look into the …

Ways to avoid email floods when running Web vulnerability scans
September 10, 2010 – 11:13 pm | 8 Comments
Ways to avoid email floods when running Web vulnerability scans

If you’ve ever ran a Web vulnerability scan you’ve likely experienced this situation. You fire up your scanner, tweak your settings, and click Start. The next thing you know people in customer service, marketing, IT, …

SQL Injection and XSS vulnerabilities in CubeCart version 4.3.3
September 9, 2010 – 4:03 pm | 3 Comments
SQL Injection and XSS vulnerabilities in CubeCart version 4.3.3

We are continuing with the list of security vulnerabilities found in a number of web applications while testing our latest version of Acunetix WVS v7 . In this blog post, we will look into the …

Web Security problems in Zenphoto version 1.3
September 7, 2010 – 2:52 pm | One Comment
Web Security problems in Zenphoto version 1.3

We are continuing with the list of security vulnerabilities found in a number of web applications while testing our latest version of Acunetix WVS v7 . In this blog post, we will look into the …

Security vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS version 1.0.4
September 3, 2010 – 8:09 pm | 3 Comments
Security vulnerabilities in Pligg CMS version 1.0.4

While beta testing the latest version of Acunetix WVS v7, we found a large number of security vulnerabilities in various web applications. In the following days we will publish some of these vulnerabilities.  Note that …

Acunetix 7 makes web application security checking easier and more cost effective
September 1, 2010 – 1:55 pm | 6 Comments
Acunetix 7 makes web application security checking easier and more cost effective

New scanning engine with improved vulnerability detection AND verification makes finding and fixing security issues in web applications easier.
London, 1st September 2010 – Acunetix, a market leader in web application security scanning technology, today announced …