Scanning a large website very often takes a long time. Using the default settings, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner will first try to identify all the pages using various crawling techniques, and will then proceed to scan the pages that have ... [+]
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 find out by … [+]
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 online businesses, and also a … [+]
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 the first part of … [+]
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released. This build includes a new feature and new security checks, improvements and addresses a number of bug fixes. New Feature: Added new option to export results to HTTP Fuzzer … [+]
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Voted Windowsecurity.Com Readers’ Choice Award Winner for the third time in a row London, UK – 25 February 2010 – Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in … [+]
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 not a website … [+]
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released. This build addresses a number of bug fixes , an updated Acunetix Firefox extension and a new security check. New Security Check: Test for Cross Site Scripting in the … [+]
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. It’s the issue of XSS … [+]
Last week, Larry Suto published a report entitled “Accuracy and Time Costs of Web Application Security Scanner Report”. I’ve started to investigate in detail the results from this report. And I’ve found a list of inaccuracies. Here is a direct … [+]
Although it is not a suggested operation, yes, you can still scan a website which has URL rewrite enabled without specifying any URL rewrite rules in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. Unlike other scanners, Acunetix WVS will advise you once it … [+]
