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 ... [+]
The US National Vulnerability Database has been hacked and infected with malware on the 8th of March 2013. Until today, the same place from where both black hats and white hats get information about existing software vulnerabilities, is still offline … [+]
Cyber-espionage, particularly for gathering economic intelligence, no longer looms on the horizon – according to the US government it is now a clear and present danger. Ellen Nakashima, a security reporter for The Washington Post, provided a brief summary of … [+]
Kindly note that the Acunetix Support Team will operate normally the last week of December 2012 and the first week of January 2013 with the following exceptions: 24 December – open until 6pm CET (GMT +1). 25, 26 December – … [+]
According to Ericka Chickowski in her 29 November article for Dark Reading, “10 Top Government Data Breaches Of 2012,” SQL injection, post-phishing and inadequately secured back-up information all contributed to spectacular comprises of data across the USA in 2012. Some … [+]
SANTA CLARA and REDWOOD SHORES, CALIFORNIA, USA & LONDON, UK – November 14, 2012 – Acunetix, a market leader in web application security technology, and Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV) a pioneer and leader of a new category of business security … [+]
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. … [+]
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 … [+]
In the 2012 Web Application Vulnerability Scanners Benchmark report, which was carried out by Shay-Chen on his website, Sectooladdict, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner topped the Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection tests with a 100% detection rate and 0% false positives! … [+]
You can interact with the Acunetix Team and with other members of the online web security community on the Acunetix Facebook Page. Our Facebook Page makes it easy to share your thoughts and comments about the latest web security news, … [+]
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Infrasec AG as Acunetix distributor for the German market. Infrasec is now responsible for coordinating the Acunetix reseller distribution channel, reseller trainings and support in Germany. Infrasec was founded in 2009 and … [+]
