Articles in web security zone
In this video we look into the details of how an attacker is able to exploit a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mambo CMS (version: 4.6.5), discovered by Bogdan Calin with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.
This …
Do you ever find yourself driving down the road in an unfamiliar place and you get that gut feeling that you’re headed in the wrong direction? Well, I feel that’s exactly where we are with …
The increase in cyber attacks on high profile online business websites implies that web security still needs to be addressed. Exploits of web server vulnerabilities typically have a more disastrous and visible impact. While with …
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, …
