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Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner of 2012

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner of 2012

APR 20, 2012 - 07:50pm | Post comment

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Wins the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award for the Fifth Successive Year Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, has announced that Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner has been selected as the winner of the 2012 WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice … [+]

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 Combats Rise in Web Hacking Attacks

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 Combats Rise in Web Hacking Attacks

FEB 16, 2012 - 10:12pm | 2 Comments

New Automation & Auto-Configuration Features Make Securing Your Website Easier and Faster London, 16th Feburary 2012 – Acunetix, a name on the forefront of the web application security industry, today announced the 8th version of its popular Web Vulnerability Scanner product. … [+]

VIDEO: Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 - What's New?

VIDEO: Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 – What's New?

NOV 23, 2011 - 04:51pm | 8 Comments

This brief presentation highlights the new exciting features of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8. We look forward to your comments. … [+]

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 BETA Available Now

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 BETA Available Now

NOV 16, 2011 - 11:25pm | 1 Comment

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 for the next most … [+]

Critical XSS Flaw Discovered in Barack Obama's Website

Critical XSS Flaw Discovered in Barack Obama's Website

SEP 20, 2011 - 09:23pm | 8 Comments

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 SecurityShell reported a similar XSS … [+]

Full Disclosure - 20 high profile sites vulnerable to XSS attacks

Full Disclosure – 20 high profile sites vulnerable to XSS attacks

SEP 12, 2011 - 09:02pm | 2 Comments

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 energy.gov. The vulnerabilities were discovered … [+]

Acunetix Facebook iPad Competition: and the Winner is...

Acunetix Facebook iPad Competition: and the Winner is…

SEP 02, 2011 - 02:27pm | Post comment

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 world is a busy one … [+]

US Police Servers Breached in New Anonymous Attack

US Police Servers Breached in New Anonymous Attack

AUG 16, 2011 - 10:02pm | Post comment

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 picking up everything in his … [+]

Anonymous hack US Department of Defence - Analysis of the Attack

Anonymous hack US Department of Defence – Analysis of the Attack

AUG 04, 2011 - 08:34pm | 4 Comments

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 hacking operation, carried out … [+]

Acunetix launches Acunetix web security Forums

Acunetix launches Acunetix web security Forums

JUL 21, 2011 - 06:26pm | Post comment

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 to post any queries … [+]