Over 1 Million Accounts Leaked in a Massive Hack Attack

Over 1 Million Accounts Leaked in a Massive Hack Attack

A recent online attack from a hacker group called Team GhostShell has targeted more than 100 websites from banks, stock exchange, police departments, and consulting firms, to law firms, and several companies from many other different sectors. Some of the … [+]

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 Build 20120808 Released

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 Build 20120808 Released

We are pleased to announce an updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS 8). The new build 20120808 offers a number of new security checks for several different well known web applicatoins, improvements and also a number bug … [+]

htaccess files should not be used for security restrictions

htaccess files should not be used for security restrictions

According to Apache documentation: .htaccess files (or “distributed configuration files”) provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to … [+]

What if We Held Ourselves to the Security Certification Standards?

What if We Held Ourselves to the Security Certification Standards?

Confidentiality, compensating controls, risk transference are just a few of the core information security concepts covered by the CISSP exam – concepts that also happen to impact Web application security. Having recently completed the technical edits for a CISSP exam … [+]