An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 was released.  This new build features a number of new security checks, automatic crawling and scanning of SVN repositories, improved Cross-site scripting checks and a …

Most of the improvements and major changes in version 7 are under the hood, but at first use you will notice the difference. The scanner is much faster and seems more intelligent (there were noticeably …

For the fourth time in a row, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Chosen as the Windowsecurity.Com Readers’ Choice Award Winner.
The leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner was selected the …

An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 was released.  With this new build, you can generate PCI 2.0 compliance reports and CWE/SANS top 25 reports. The Input Fields feature was also enhanced, and now …

Acunetix WVS  7.0 is not only helpful, it is extremely powerful. With the new multi-threaded scanner, the entire process far faster and efficient than ever before.  This software offers the best of both worlds; the …

An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 has been released. In this build we introduced a new Cross-site scripting security check and also address a number of bug fixes.

A must read interview for anyone who is interested in evaluating web vulnerability scanners.  In this interview we discuss the process of choosing a web vulnerability scanner and underline several factors that should be taken …

An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 was released, featuring further DOM XSS checks improvements and addresses a number of bug fixes.
New features:

DOM XSS will now report the filename in which the attack was …

To secure a website or a web application, one has to first understand the target application, how it works and the scope behind it.  Ideally, the penetration tester should have some basic knowledge of programming …

The new build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability scanner Version 7 checks for DOM based XSS vulnerabilities.  Unlike the traditional cross-site scripting vulnerability, document object model based cross-site scripting (DOM XSS) vulnerability is a type of …