With the release of Acunetix Standard and Acunetix Premium version 23.8 comes the addition of critical severity as a new vulnerability classification. What’s changing? Our vulnerability classification system (High-Medium-Low) is expanding to include a fourth threat level: Critical Severity. From 5 September 2023, you’ll notice…
Acunetix sunsets support for Windows 8 and Server 2012
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows and Linux: 15.7 We are sunsetting the support for Windows 8, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2. To provide you with the best DAST product experience, we regularly update Acunetix. As a result of these…
Acunetix releases a security check for Fortinet RCE flaw
This Acunetix release introduces a new security check for the Fortinet RCE flaw (CVE-2022-39952). The FortiNAC, a network security solution, was discovered to have a vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 9.8, known as CVE-2022-39952. Fortinet disclosed the security issue on February 16. The…
Acunetix improves default roles
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows and Linux: 15.4 This Acunetix release improves the default roles. Acunetix offers role-based access control (RBAC) to efficiently manage user access. Thanks to RBAC, you can limit or authorize user access to Acunetix based on the…
Acunetix improves user experience and notifications
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows and Linux: 15.1 This Acunetix release updates its user interface and the notifications list. The user interface features a new navigation menu, which prioritizes features based on how frequently you may need them. The most…
Acunetix releases support for RHEL 9, updates CWE report, and improves PHP IAST AcuSensor
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows and Linux: 15.0.221007170. This Acunetix release introduces support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9, which has been released earlier this year. The PHP IAST AcuSensor can now be used with web applications that take…
3 reasons why DAST is the best way to begin the web application security journey
To fully secure your web applications, you need several software solutions, specialist internal resources, and external contractors. However, this means significant costs, and not everyone can afford it all at once. How should small businesses start their web application security journey? Let’s have a look…
How scanners find vulnerabilities
DAST vulnerability scanners are not that different from virus scanners. In both cases, the goal of the software is to find something out of the ordinary in the target. A virus scanner scans a computer’s local resources and storage to find potentially malicious software. A…
Acunetix releases IAST support for WebSphere and improves crawling of SPAs
A new Acunetix Premium update has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS: 14.9.220713150 This Acunetix release introduces IAST support for WebSphere enabling the use of the Java IAST sensor (AcuSensor) with this Java server. In addition, Acunetix DeepScan has been updated to better scan…