I recently took some time off which gave me the opportunity to clear my head and think about some of the big issues we’re facing with Internet security. I thought if I had to pick …

Question and Answer on Help Net Security; Google Hacking with Robert Abela, Acunetix Technical Manager.  In this intervie we discuss:

The importance of Google for security research
What kind of information about a target a penetration can …

With the sharp increase of hacking attacks over the last couple of years, and the introduction of a number of regulatory compliance guidelines to follow, web application security has become a key concern for many …

This is the second part of an older article we posted, where we present some statistics from the top 1,000,000 sites on the internet.  We are using the Alexa database as source for our statistics.  …

In this short video we give a brief overview of web application security. We will see;

What is the difference between network security and web / web application security?
Why network firewalls and network security scanners are …

Obviously, cross-site scripting (XSS) is a big problem on the public Web. But there’s another angle to XSS that no one seems to be talking about – at least I’m not seeing anything on it. …

As part of my job here at Acunetix, from time to time I analyze source code looking for security problems. Using this information I adjust Acunetix WVS to detect these problems automatically (when it’s possible).
Monday, …

When it comes to Web security why is it we always seem to focus on layer 7 only? Sure, it can be argued that XSS, SQL injection, flawed application logic and so on are the …

The next version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (version 7), will contain a much more improved HTTP stack.   While testing, we wanted to test the new HTTP stack on as many sites as possible to …

When evaluating an automated web application security tool, such as Acunetix WVS, the first two questions that typically one would ask are “Does this tool perform an invasive scan or not?”, “Will it damage my …