An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 was released. Improvement: More updates to the Client Script Analyser (CSA) engine for better Web 2.0 support Bug Fixes: Fix: Added port in host header for https in manual browsing Fixed: Crawler not serving pages to Client…
HTTP Post Denial Of Service: more dangerous than initially thought
Wong Onn Chee and Tom Brennan from OWASP recently published a paper* presenting a new denial of service attack against web servers. What’s special about this denial of service attack is that it’s very hard to fix because it relies on a generic problem in…
Notable changes in PCI DSS 2.0 affecting Web application security
“Clarification, additional guidance, and evolving requirements” – welcome to the new PCI standards! Hot off the press are the new PCI DSS and PA-DSS requirements which take effect January 1, 2011. So, if you work in or around Web application security, it’ll behoove you to…
Acunetix WVS Version 7 build 20101115 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 was released. It includes a new feature, and improved support for JQuery and Web 2.0 web applications. New Features: Ability to stop individual running security scripts during a scan Major Improvements: CSA engine now supports a wider…
Application Security; Don’t get caught off guard with dangerous assumptions
Don’t get caught off guard. We hear that statement all the time with regards to information security. Sadly, as many businesses have experienced, such talk is cheap. Obviously no one wants their Web site to get hacked. Okay, maybe a few admins or developers who…
Holidays Brings out the Bad Guys
As you might expect, there is a projected large increase in criminal activities forecasted for this year. Driving malware and trojan infections via YOUR website is now becoming more of a standard operating procedure than ever. As reported in ThreatPosts more recent listing: ‘Spammers Gearing…
Acunetix WVS Version 7 build 20101028 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 has been released. This build addresses a number of bug fixes. Bug Fixes: Fixed: Replay of recorded login sequences was not working properly in the free version Fixed: NTLM authentication was not working properly when using specific…
Preventing phishing attacks is not just a technical issue
A client of mine who’s a security administrator for a business in the financial industry contacted me recently about some odd behavior he was seeing on his network. Apparently numerous spidering/mirroring requests were being sent to his company’s marketing website from a foreign country –…
Internet Voting Trial Thwarted by Hackers
The District of Columbia recently attempted to give the opportunity to number of people who live or work overseas to be able to cast their vote remotely. To do this a secure E-Voting website costing over $300,000 was built. On Tuesday, September 28 2010 the first public trial run was launched. Thirty-six hours later the voting system was hacked by a student. It took nearly three days for D.C officials to realize that their system was compromised. The trial was immediately suspended and red-faced engineers and politicians quickly scrambled to find out how this breach could possibly have happened.