Scanning a large website very often takes a long time. Using the default settings, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner will first try to identify all the pages using various crawling techniques, and will then proceed to scan the pages that have ... [+]
Google Hacking is a hacking technique used by hackers to identify web security vulnerabilities on web applications or gather information for general or individual targets. Mostly this information includes configuration and source code files, sensitive data, database information, etc. This … [+]
The National Weather Service has been hacked by the Kosova Hacker’s security group, leading to sensitive server information being leaked. The group managed to hack into the server using a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in the weather.gov website. … [+]
Many of today’s large scale websites are template based. This means that most of the website pages which users visit are usually built from the same template file. Thus it is normal for a template based websites to be made … [+]
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 (WVS) uses “session-in” and “session-out” patterns in order to detect if a logged in session on your website is invalidated and if need to be re-established. Acunetix WVS uses the recorded login sequence defined by the … [+]
An Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Scanning Profile defines which tests to launch against the target website. For example, if you wish to test a website against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, simply select the XSS Scanning Profile. You can also create a … [+]
LinkedIn, one of the biggest professional social networks, has suffered a major breach of its user password database. The attack was confirmed on Wednesday afternoon by Vicente Silveira, Director at LinkedIn, and was followed by an apology to the affected … [+]
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner ( WVS ) offers you the ability to choose specific types of attacks to run against your site, such as SQL injection or Cross-Site Scripting attacks. You can select the desired attacks and save them as different Web … [+]
Among many advanced penetration testing tools provided, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) offers you the HTTP Sniffer tool. With the HTTP Sniffer you can capture, trap, analyze and even modify any HTTP traffic that the sniffer is listening to, e.g. … [+]
In order to save time scanning websites, you can run multiple instances of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (up to 2 instances or up to 10 instances depending on your license), allowing you to scan numerous websites at the same time, … [+]
