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The next big release of Acunetix WVS is in Beta, and will soon be safeguarding thousands of web applications and businesses. This brief presentation highlights the exciting new features in WVS 8; we look forward …
The next stage in the evolution of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner has arrived — WVS 8 BETA!
Many of you have been biting their nails in anticipation of this Beta, so sit tight and read on …
A security research team called Vulnerability-Lab have discovered a persistent XSS vulnerability in the official website of Barack Obama. This is not the first time that the president’s website was targeted. About a year ago …
On Thursday morning a post appeared on the popular Full Disclosure Internet discussion group listing XSS vulnerabilities in no less than 20 high profile websites. Amongst the vulnerable are McDonalds, IEEE Explore, Harvard University, and …
There’s no way the Acunetix Facebook iPad competition was going to fly under the radar. As soon as August was out we immediately began receiving messages asking who the competition winner was. Well, the security …
On the 31st of July 2011, the system administrator of Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing (BJM) was working on his newly upgraded servers. At exactly the same time a hacker was slowly sniffing his way through the same systems and …
On the 12th of July 2011, Booz Allen Hamilton the largest U.S. military defence contractor admitted that they had just suffered a very serious security breach, at the hands of hacktivist group AntiSec.
Operation Anti-Security (AntiSec) is a …
As part of our commitment to help companies and business secure their websites and web applications, we are launching the Acunetix Forums.
If you are an Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner user (free or commercial) feel free …
The Washington Post website has been hit with a double security breach. Hackers have made off with around 1.3 million user IDs and email address from the “Jobs” section of the site. The attackers were …
Alarming results have been announced following a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Research Institute and Juniper Networks. In their survey, 583 American companies were interviewed on security related questions. The result seems to correlate …
