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 …
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The Subdomain Scanner in Acunetix WVS scans a top-level domain to discover subdomains configured in its hierarchy, by using the target domain’s DNS server, or any other DNS server specified by the user. While scanning, …
The Target Finder tool in Acunetix WVS is a port scanner which can be used to discover running web servers on a given IP or within a specified range of IP’s. The list of ports …
Making Web application security work is more than simply telling developers they need to write better code. We can scream “Write better code!” and “Integrate security into the application lifecycle!” at developers until end of …
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. …
I was reviewing the most recent SANS @RISK Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert and it reminded me of how easy it is to get caught up in the big stuff and overlook the seemingly innocuous when …
On the 4th of July 2010 YouTube users began complaining that their videos had been hijacked, the comments section of their videos seemed to be most severely affected, many complained that old comments vanished and new comments could not be added. Others reported that offensive messages were popping up on their screen or scrolling horizontally in large fonts and striking colors. Some users also seemed to suggest that there were experiencing page redirects, often to sites promoting pornographic content.
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 …
Acunetix will be exhibiting at the OWASP AppSec US 2010 in California. The event will take place between 7th and 10th of September 2010. The event will be held at UC Irvine Conference Center, in …
Recently over 100,000 Apple customers were affected by an information gathering attack on the AT&T website. Security experts blame this breach on “poorly designed software”. An analysis of the attack reveals that the hackers did indeed use a classic attack, in fact…
Looking to hop aboard the Web vulnerability scanning bandwagon to see just how vulnerable your Web site or application really is? Well, not so fast. Here are some signs you’re not ready to begin just …