Take Care in Handling the Results of Your Web Application Testing

Take Care in Handling the Results of Your Web Application Testing

How do you handle your web application testing, vulnerability scans, test data and related security assessment reports? I’ve found that this is something that doesn’t get a lot of attention in web application security circles but is still impactful to the business. It’s … [+]

How does Acunetix WVS Compare to Other Web Application Vulnerability Scanners?

How does Acunetix WVS Compare to Other Web Application Vulnerability Scanners?

In the 2012 Web Application Vulnerability Scanners Benchmark report, which was carried out by Shay-Chen on his website, Sectooladdict, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner topped the Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection tests with a 100% detection rate and 0% false positives! … [+]

Join the Acunetix Online Community

Join the Acunetix Online Community

You can interact with the Acunetix Team and with other members of the online web security community on the Acunetix Facebook Page. Our Facebook Page makes it easy to share your thoughts and comments about the latest web security news, … [+]

Don’t Let Problems Stop You From Carrying Out Web Application Testing

Don’t Let Problems Stop You From Carrying Out Web Application Testing

Web security assessment success is directly related to the amount of preparation you do up front before you run a single web application test. It’s the 80/20 Rule: the 20 percent time and effort you put into planning for the assessment will represent … [+]

New cross-site scripting security checks in latest Acunetix WVS build

New cross-site scripting security checks in latest Acunetix WVS build

We are pleased to announce an updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS 8). The new build 20120704, includes a number of new security checks, improvements and bug fixes. The highlight of this new Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner … [+]

Windows Short (8.3) Filenames - A Security Nightmare?

Windows Short (8.3) Filenames – A Security Nightmare?

Each time you create a new file on Windows, the operating system also generates an MS-DOS-compatible short file name in 8.3 format, to allow MS-DOS-based or 16-bit Windows-based programs to access files which have a long name. You can see these … [+]