For companies, threats come from two sources—outside the organization and inside (reads: disgruntled, unethical employees). Insider threats can be very difficult to handle and the number of annual incidents is on the rise. The insider threat can come in several forms: Employees who steal intellectual…
BREACH attacks: Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext
BREACH attacks, abbreviated from Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext, are attacks similar to the CRIME attack. Both attacks are compression side channel attacks, however CRIME targets information compressed in HTTP requests through TLS compression, whilst BREACH targets information compressed in HTTP…
The importance of Internal Web Security Assessments
What do things look like on the outside? That’s the main focus we have as human beings. But beauty is only skin deep. As with relationships and leaked NSA documents, we quickly discover that what’s on the inside is just as, if not more, important….
Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
A Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack gives an attacker the ability to use your web application to send requests to other applications running on the same machine, or to other servers which can be on the same or on a remote network. Since the…
Automatic detection of XXE vulnerabilities in OpenID implementations using Acunetix AcuMonitor
Reginaldo Silva recently uncovered a very interesting bug affecting Facebook (and received $33,500 for this discovery). The bug is caused by improper handling of XML documents in OpenID implementations causing XML External Entity Expansion vulnerabilities. He mentioned in his article that many OpenID implementations/libraries are…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v9, build 20140206 includes several new tests for vulnerabilities on well-known web applications
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9, build 20140206 is able to scan WordPress more efficiently, and includes various new checks for vulnerabilities in well-known systems such as MediaWiki, IBM Web Content Manager, Joomla! and Oracle. New Functionality in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v9 Added a…
Systex IT Technology Forum
Organized by Systex, a leading IT services provider in Taiwan, the IT Technology Forum was held on the 12th of December 2013. The event was a next generation and security technology seminar aimed at introducing the latest technologies to the IT community. Acunetix was exhibited…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v9, build 20131216 includes a new PCI 3.0 compliance report and several new tests
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9, build 20131216 includes a new compliance report to cover the latest version of the PCI DSS Regulations. In addition, this new build checks for several vulnerabilities in various systems including Ruby on Rails, Zend Framework, Nginx and WordPress. New…
New Security Checks Added to Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
The latest build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner includes a lot of changes and new security tests. Here is a short summary of the most interesting tests we’ve just added. 1. Vulnerable JavaScript libraries Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner can now identify vulnerable versions of various JavaScript…