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 ... [+]
After installing Acunetix WVS configuring it to best suit your requirements (scanning profiles, save directories, login sequences etc.), you might need to make changes to your workstation that might cause all these customizations to be lost – e.g. formatting your … [+]
The following features complete the Acunetix WVS scanning arsenal: Innovative AcuSensor technology Web server configuration detection Web server security scan (Port Scanner) against services such as DNS, SSH etc Dictionary (brute force) attacker to test password strength of login pages … [+]
Acunetix WVS is a heuristic scanner and not a signature based scanner, which by design is an efficient way of reducing false positives. With the introduction of AcuSensor Technology, false positive reporting has been drastically reduced because vulnerability detection is no longer … [+]
When recoding a login sequence, the crawler needs to be configured to automatically identify if a web application’s logged in session (navigation of a password protected area) is still valid or not. This is an important step when recording a … [+]
Some websites are designed to use custom 404 error pages instead of a web browser’s standard error page because they can be branded and made to contain links to other important pages. If your website uses custom 404 error pages … [+]
Acunetix WVS features a directory and file filter which allows you to safely exclude specific URLs or directories from the scan. To create a directory filter: In the Tools Explorer, click ‘Configuration’ and then click ‘Settings’ in the main panel. … [+]
Acunetix WVS can safely ignore certain file types which cannot be exploited by a hacker, and therefore cannot be considered as vulnerable. By ignoring these files types a scan will take less time to complete, and will be more efficient … [+]
Should you need to generate a report for a security scan performed at an eariler stage, it is possible to load a saved scan result file and manually import it into the Acunetix WVS reporting database. To generate a report … [+]
The Acunetix WVS Login Sequence Recorder can be used for many other tasks rather than just to scan password protected areas. If used appropriately it will help you in automating most of the crawling process. Therefore the Acunetix WVS Login … [+]
As a pattern and exploit analysis tool, Acunetix WVS performs a web security audit by executing the following 3 sub-tasks: Step 1: Target identification WVS checks if the target(s) are running a web server, and therefore host any websites. Information … [+]
