A poll of 1000 Institute of Directors members in the UK has found that two thirds of the companies who fall victim to a data breach are failing to declare it publicly or report it to the police for fear of reputational damage. Also, only…
In the headlines: Cyber bank heist, Federal bug bounty program, Facebook flaw and more
Billion dollar cyber bank job foiled by spelling mistake A huge cyber bank heist was uncovered this week when the perpetrator made some spelling errors. Having already successfully drained $101m from the central bank of Bangladesh by penetrating their systems and impersonating officials, they were…
Invicti announced âCutting Edge Web Application Securityâ winner in the 4th Annual 2016 Cyber Defense Magazine InfoSec Awards
Web application security solution recognized during RSA Conference 2016 LONDON, 15 March 2016 â Invicti, a global leader in web application security testing, announced that Cyber Defense Magazine, the industryâs leading electronic information security magazine and media partner of the RSA Conference 2016, has named…
Alliance Technology Partners offering introductory and advanced Invicti training courses
Alliance Technology Partners, Invicti Partners since 2007, have announced they shall be offering Invicti Training Courses, delivered via the web, by their highly experienced senior security engineer. The 3 hour courses on offer are at introductory and advanced level, as well as providing on-going consulting. Training…
The costs of security bugs and why automated testing can help
A report accompanied with a rating taxonomy aimed to help researchers and customers to determine appropriate payouts for bugs found by researchers in bug bounty programs has recently been released by Bugcrowd. These tools, especially the Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT), which details a number of…
RSA Conference 2016 highlights
The Invicti team has returned from a successful trip to San Francisco where they exhibited at RSA Conference 2016. This week-long conference was attended by over 30,000 security professionals. Chris Martin, General Manager; Nicholas Sciberras, Product Manager; Ian Muscat, Product Communications Manager and Tamara Naudi,…
Invicti voted WindowSecurity.com Readersâ Choice Award winner
LONDON, February 29, 2016 â Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Invicti Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in the Web Application Security category of the WindowSecurity.com Readersâ Choice Awards. âOur Readersâ Choice Awards give visitors to our site the opportunity to…
Whatâs new in CVSS version 3
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard for assessing the severity of security vulnerabilities, designed in such a way that makes it independent from any vendor or industry. In our previous blog post, we discussed CVSS v3 and how Invicti provides support…
Invicti briefing at RSA Conference 2016
We are pleased to announce that our Product Communications Manager, Ian Muscat, will be presenting a briefing, at RSA Conference, entitled âDetecting Stealthy Web Application Vulnerabilities Automaticallyâ. The briefing will be held on Thursday 3rd March at 1130 in the South Expo. See invite below…