Articles by Robert Abela
A new version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner is available in beta, and what a version!
It has been one long year of development, testing and late nights at the office, though it was all worth …
It is possible to manually crawl your website with Acunetix WVS using a web browser. Using the resultant — and manually crawled — links, it is then possible to build a website structure that will …
The HTTP Editor tool allows you to create, analyze and edit client HTTP requests and server responses. This allows you to further fine tune attacks and check if vulnerabilities were solved.
You can start the HTTP …
The Authentication Tester tool in Acunetix WVS is used to test the strength of both usernames and passwords within HTTP and web forms authentication environments via a dictionary attack.
Testing HTTP Authentication
Ideal for penetration testers, the Blind SQL injector is an automated database data extraction tool. By importing SQL injections discovered when scanning a website, you can see what a serious impact an SQL injection can …
With the HTTP Fuzzer tool in Acunetix WVS you can automatically send a large number / volume of HTTP Requests including invalid, unexpected and random data to a website, to test its input validation capabilities. …
The Subdomain Scanner in Acunetix WVS scans a top-level domain to discover subdomains configured in its hierarchy, by using the target domain’s DNS server, or any other DNS server specified by the user. While scanning, …
The Target Finder tool in Acunetix WVS is a port scanner which can be used to discover running web servers on a given IP or within a specified range of IP’s. The list of ports …
Facebook rates as the second most popular website on the internet with 400 million active users. When such a website has common web application security flaws, they are going to be abused for one’s gain. …
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner placed first in a paper released by Adam Doup´e, Marco Cova, and Giovanni Vigna from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the paper “Why Johnny Can’t Pentest: An Analysis of …
