Alliance Technology Partners and Acunetix recently exhibited at America’s Center Convention Complex for St. Louis SecureWorld 2015. Over the past decade SecureWorld has emerged as one of North America’s most vital cybersecurity conference, providing globally relevant education, training and networking for cybersecurity professionals on a regional…
Visit Acunetix at Gitex Technology Week 2015
Comguard, the Acunetix distributor based in Dubai, will be participating in GITEX 2015 between the 18th and 22nd October 2015. Now in its 35th year, Gitex is heralded as one of the largest and most important ICT events around the globe. Alive with the energy of the…
Gartner recognizes Acunetix as a Challenger for Application Security Testing in 2015
Acunetix Receives 2nd highest product score for Manual Web Penetration Testing in Gartner’s 2015 Critical Capabilities for Application Security Testing Report Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, has recognised Acunetix as a challenger, assigning Acunetix Web…
SQLi part 2: What’s the worst an attacker can do with SQL?
SQL is a programming language designed for managing data stored in an RDBMS, therefore SQL can be used to access, modify and delete data. Furthermore, in specific cases, an RDBMS could also run commands on the operating system from an SQL statement. LEARN MORE: SQL…
The 2015 Cost of Data Breach analysis by Ponemon Institute
A joint report analysing the cost of data breaches has been released by IBM and Ponemon Institute. Having surveyed 350 companies globally, they’ve found that the average cost of a data breach is increasing, having gone from $3.52m in 2014 to $3.79m in 2015. The…
Fortinet uses Acunetix to offer immediate Vulnerability detection
Acunetix Vulnerability Scan results can now be imported into the FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) LONDON, 12th October 2015 – Acunetix, a market leader in web application security technology, today announced that Acunetix web vulnerability scan results can now be imported into the new FortiWeb…
Acunetix OVS updated to allow better Vulnerability Management
Acunetix Online Vulnerability Scanner (OVS) has been updated to provide better web and perimeter security, while providing an improved indication of the security of your assets. Through this update, Acunetix OVS users can easily identify their long forgotten assets, rest assured that their servers are…
In the headlines: David Jones and T-Mobile hack, remote code execution bugs, WinRAR vulnerability, and more
Australian department store David Jones victim of hack Australian department store giant David Jones has informed customers through a notice on their site, that they were recently hacked. However, they also assured account holders that no financial data had been breached and that there was…
SQLi – How it works (Part 1)
In this 6 part series on SQLi (SQL Injection) we shall be describing the vulnerability and its variants, showing how it works and what an attacker can do with it. SQL injection (SQLi) refers to an injection attack wherein an attacker can execute malicious SQL…