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 ... [+]
PHP version 5.3.1 was just released. This release contains a patch for a denial of service condition we’ve reported some time ago. The problem is related with PHP’s handling of RFC 1867 (Form-based File Upload in HTML). When you send … [+]
The US Air Force’s mission is to fly, fight and win… in air, space and Cyberspace. US Air Force has an elite force defending people from millions of cyber attacks every day in their newest battlefield; Cyberspace. In a battle … [+]
The earliest public mention I could find of SQL Injection (‘piggybacking SQL statements’ as the author put it) was from someone who called himself Rain Forest Puppy (RFP). In 1998 RFP wrote an article for Phrack Magazine (Volume 9, Issue … [+]
Question and Answer on Help Net Security; Web Application Security with Robert Abela, Acunetix Technical Manager. In this interview, Robert discusses: web applicaiton attack vectors the impact of Cross-Site Scripting advice on securing web applications Question and Answer on Help … [+]
An updated build for Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released. It includes a number of bug fixes. Bug fixes: Fixed: Redirect on LoginSequenceStep was not followed correctly Fix in URL Rewrite module to remove GetVars before matching rules How … [+]
An updated build for Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released with some bug fixes. Bug fixes: Fixed: Memory leak when invoking state change handler Fixed: Item index for an item which has just been inserted fails in the Browserframe … [+]
An anonymous user posted usernames and passwords for over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to web site PasteBin. PasteBin is currently down for maintenance but I managed to get a copy of the list and quickly generated some statistics from … [+]
An updated build for Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released with some improvements, bug fixes and new security checks. New: Added a new check for SVN repositories Improvements: Improved MultiRequest paramenter manipulation; now using the form matcher to match … [+]
The Acunetix WVS Login Sequence Recorder can be used for many other tasks rather than just to scan password protected areas. If used appropriately it will help you in automating most of the crawling process. Therefore the Acunetix WVS Login … [+]
