There are over 43,900 official plugins available for WordPress, another 6,200 for Joomla! and 33,700 for Drupal, not to mention the countless other platforms that are freely and easily accessible. The plugins’ abilities range from adding photos for a personal website to complex development collaboration…
Acunetix to exhibit at the 7th Annual TELCO Cloud Forum
Acunetix will be exhibiting for the first time at the 7th Annual TELCO Cloud 2016 Forum on 10th and 11th May 2016 at Stand 7 at the Park Plaza Victoria, London, UK. The TELCO Cloud Forum is a one-stop-shop for Telco Cloud professionals bringing the entire ecosystem under…
In the headlines: UK military cyber defense centre, WordPress and Joomla applications, Magnitude Exploit kit and more
UK establishes £40m military cyber defense centre With the huge proposals and funding pumped into cyber security by the US government lately, there was no doubt the UK would soon be following suit. Plans were unveiled last week for a £40m Cyber Security Operations Centre,…
Nesta report offers a rose tinted insight into the potential for digitising local UK government
A refreshingly progressive report was published in the UK recently, by Nesta, titled ‘Connected Councils: A Digital Vision of Local Government in 2025’. We say refreshing because this is not a doom and gloom report about how corporations are failing to tackle cyber security and…
Panama Papers; was the biggest breach in history caused by a simple vulnerability?
Europe is currently caught up in a political furore surrounding the leak of the ‘Panama Papers’, which basically has leaked the names of those using the offshore tax haven. Among the names to surface have included the Icelandic prime minister, who has since resigned and…
PwC Report Shows Cybercrime in the UK is Growing Rapidly
In the latest edition of their Global Economic Crime Survey, PricewaterhouseCoopers have announced a finding of a 20% increase in cybercrime, making it the fastest growing category of economic crime. The UK seems to be the most severely affected, with 55% of organisations being affected…
Acunetix wins “Best of 2016” award with Acunetix Online Vulnerability Scanner
Web application security solution recognized as valuable tool for SMB market LONDON, UK – March 2016 – Acunetix, a global leader in web application security testing, has beaten the competition to win the “Best of 2016” award in the IT Security category by German institution…
Acunetix “Web Application Security” podcast featured on HelpNetSecurity
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2016, Ian Muscat, Product Communications Manager at Acunetix, talks about web application security at large and how Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner is able to detect and report on a number of vulnerabilities in applications built on architectures such as WordPress,…
Two thirds of companies fail to declare data breaches
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…