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Statistics from a phisher’s list
November 30, 2010 – 5:55 pm | 2 Comments
Statistics from a phisher’s list

Yesterday night I was following some security related forums and some person posted a phishing kit for a popular bank from Romania.  A phishing kit is a collection of scripts to help a script kiddie …

HTTP Post Denial Of Service: more dangerous than initially thought
November 22, 2010 – 8:47 pm | 17 Comments
HTTP Post Denial Of Service: more dangerous than initially thought

Wong Onn Chee and Tom Brennan from OWASP recently published a paper* presenting a new denial of service attack against web servers.
What’s special about this denial of service attack is that it’s very hard to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Gray Powell and the lost iPhone, and malware
April 20, 2010 – 3:45 pm | 2 Comments
Gray Powell and the lost iPhone, and malware

In case you didn’t hear about it already, the story of the day is Gray Powell and the lost iPhone. So I searched for him on Google.
I was really surprised to see that 4 out …

VIDEO: Exploiting a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mambo CMS
April 13, 2010 – 6:53 pm | 5 Comments
VIDEO: Exploiting a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mambo CMS

In this video we look into the details of how an attacker is able to exploit a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mambo CMS (version: 4.6.5), discovered by Bogdan Calin with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.
This …

Statistics from the top 1,000,000 websites – part II
March 4, 2010 – 4:38 pm | 3 Comments
Statistics from the top 1,000,000 websites – part II

This is the second part of an older article we posted, where we present some statistics from the top 1,000,000 sites on the internet.  We are using the Alexa database as source for our statistics.  …