The National Weather Service has been hacked by the Kosova Hacker’s security group, leading to sensitive server information being leaked. The group managed to hack into the server using a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in the weather.gov website. As the name denotes, Local File…
What can Developers do to Better Protect PII?
A client of mine recently asked me if I had any Web development related tips for dealing with Personally Identifiable Information (PII). With this being an information security 101 type question, I had to think about it for a bit. It then occurred to me…
One Thing That Can Buy You More Web Security Than Just About Anything Else
There is no magic bullet when it comes to web security. That said, there is one thing that can buy you more security than practically anything else. It’s your passwords. Your choice in – and management of – your web passwords can make or break…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 build 20121003 released
The new Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 build includes a new crawler feature to automatically ignore duplicate input schemes in the same directory. With this new crawler feature, scans will take less time to complete and less traffic is generated during a scan. The new…
HTML Form Found in Redirect Page Web Vulnerability
When creating a password protected section for a website, such as an admin portal for a CMS solution, typically developers check if the user session is authenticated. If the user session is not authenticated, the user is redirect to the login page. Maybe because the lack of…
How Aware Do We Have to be Not to Fall for the Bad Guys Antics?
Criminal hackers are getting more and more creative in their phishing and social engineering attacks on the web. This not only puts your website in the crosshairs but also your own personal information. A common question that comes up is: How do I stay in…
What’s the Best Way to Find Web Security Flaws?
With all of the potential ways the bad guys can exploit websites (literally thousands), many people want to know what the best way is to actually uncover these flaws. Well, there’s no magic bullet answer, however, generally speaking Web flaws can be discovered in one…
Scanning a Shopping Cart with an Automated Security Scanner
Many of today’s large scale websites are template based. This means that most of the website pages which users visit are usually built from the same template file. Thus it is normal for a template based websites to be made up of about 20 or…
New Features and Security Checks Added to Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8
The new build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner released today includes a number of new features, new security checks and also a number of bug fixes. Ideal for scanning and securing today’s complex custom web applications, the main new feature allows importing of multiple HTTP…