releases

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Product Releases

docs & faq

Acunetix technical documentation how to and FAQ

news

Acunetix Company and Web Security news, & Press Releases

events

Acunetix Webinars, Events and Training around the world

web security zone

Everything you need to know about Web Security

Home » Archive by Category

Articles in news

Acunetix 7 makes web application security checking easier and more cost effective
September 1, 2010 – 1:55 pm | No Comment
Acunetix 7 makes web application security checking easier and more cost effective

New scanning engine with improved vulnerability detection AND verification makes finding and fixing security issues in web applications easier.
London, 1st September 2010 – Acunetix, a market leader in web application security scanning technology, today announced …

VIDEO: What’s new in Acunetix WVS v7?
August 26, 2010 – 9:40 pm | No Comment

Check out this 4 minutes YouTube video to find out what’s new in the new and revolutionary Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7.

Click here to watch the high quality version of this video

Acunetix WVS Version 7 BETA is available!
August 10, 2010 – 9:10 pm | 2 Comments
Acunetix WVS Version 7 BETA is available!

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 …

Discovered XSS on Facebook can lead to account hijack
July 28, 2010 – 7:59 pm | 2 Comments
Discovered XSS on Facebook can lead to account hijack

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 WVS takes first place in black box web vulnerability scanners comparison
June 29, 2010 – 8:04 pm | One Comment
Acunetix WVS takes first place in black box web vulnerability scanners comparison

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 …

web application firewall bypass with a XSS attack
June 1, 2010 – 6:52 pm | 5 Comments
web application firewall bypass with a XSS attack

In the following demo video, Sandro Gauci of EnableSecurity shows how an attacker can switch off dotDefender in order to bypass any “protection” offered by the WAF.  Such attack is possible By exploiting a cross-site …

Acunetix WVS helps Digicure discover web vulnerabilities
May 20, 2010 – 6:21 pm | No Comment
Acunetix WVS helps Digicure discover web vulnerabilities

A proper web security audit is a mixture of automated and manual tests; Acunetix WVS provides a comprehensive tool for automated testing purposes and useful toolbox Digicure can use for manual penetration testing as well.  …

SQL Injection hits again; 168,000 personal records exposed
May 18, 2010 – 9:27 pm | No Comment
SQL Injection hits again; 168,000 personal records exposed

A hacker, who calls himself “ins3cted”, has demonstrated to Webwereld via video how by exploiting a simple SQL injection, he can retrieve 168,000 personal records from a Dutch website called Experience the OV (http://www.ervaarhetov.nl).
Citizens living …

Gray Powell and the lost iPhone, and malware
April 20, 2010 – 3:45 pm | 2 Comments
Gray Powell and the lost iPhone, and malware

In case you didn’t hear about it already, the story of the day is Gray Powell and the lost iPhone. So I searched for him on Google.
I was really surprised to see that 4 out …

Acunetix WVS voted Windowsecurity.com readers’ choice award winner
February 25, 2010 – 6:20 pm | 2 Comments

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Voted Windowsecurity.Com Readers’ Choice Award Winner for the third time in a row
London, UK – 25 February 2010 – Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner was …