This year Acunetix has teamed up with local charity The Foodbank at St.Andrew’s that helps individuals and families in short term crisis, through the provision of emergency food supplies. Acunetix staff collected non-perishable food items and baby products, to be delivered to the Foodbank. All staff…
Online Security: Application Security Testing – Part 2
Part 1 in this series looked at Online Security and the flawed protocols it lays upon. Online Security is complex and its underlying fabric was built without security in mind. Here we shall be exploring aspects of Application Security Testing. We live in a world…
OWASP Top 10 2017 Update – What You Need to Know
After the long-winding road of discussion and deliberation, revision, disagreements and adjustments, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) are updating their venerable Top 10 list of the most critical web application security risks since 2013. This update brings with it three new entries to…
Online Security: The Underlying Infrastructure – Part 1
Technology Revolutionized A plethora of valuable solutions now run on web-based applications. One could argue that web applications are the forefront of the world. More importantly, we must equip them with appropriate online security tools to barricade against the rising web vulnerabilities. With the right…
New build adds detection for CMS Made Simple vulnerabilities and many other updates
Acunetix v11 (build 11.0.173131028) has been released. This new build introduces new vulnerability checks for CMS Made Simple, adds support for Selenium scripts as import files, and includes a good list of updates and bug fixes. Below is a full list of updates. New Features…
Acunetix sponsors the 3rd Cyprus Penetration Testing Competition at UCLan Cyprus
Acunetix were the proud sponsors of the 3rd Cyprus Penetration Testing Competition that took place on Sunday, October 8th at UCLan Cyprus. The event was organized by UCLan Cyprus and the University of Cyprus, under the auspices of the office of the Commissioner of Electronic Communications…
it-sa 2017 Highlights
Acunetix recently participated at it-sa 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany in partnership with VOQUZ, the Acunetix Expert Partners for Germany. While talking to visitors, VOQUZ, noted that IT compliance and data security were at the forefront of visitors’ minds, making Acunetix a fitting solution.
Cross-site Flashing (XSF) WordPress Vulnerability, Unpatched and Exploitable
WordPress, the content management system powering north of 28% of websites on the Internet, is certainly no stranger to providing timely security patches to its hundreds of millions of users when security researchers report them. This time however, things took a slightly different turn —…
Acunetix showcased at AISA National Conference 2017
emt Distribution, Acunetix distributors for Australia and New Zealand, recently exhibited at the AISA National Conference in Sydney 2017. Acunetix was showcased on Stand 21 together with Flexera and local security firm Airlock Digital. The distributors noted a diversity of attendees all eager to discuss…