Domain Fronting is a widely popular technique that is used for evading Firewalls, DPI’s and censors. Domain Fronting takes advantage of legitimate high reputation cloud providers, more specifically, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), for evasion. This technique has been commonly used in the wild to circumvent…
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What is Insecure Deserialization?
Insecure Deserialization is a vulnerability which occurs when untrusted data is used to abuse the logic of an application, inflict a denial of service (DoS) attack, or even execute arbitrary code upon it being deserialized. It also occupies the #8 spot in the OWASP Top…
OWASP Top 10 2017 Update – What You Need to Know
After the long-winding road of discussion and deliberation, revision, disagreements and adjustments, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) are updating their venerable Top 10 list of the most critical web application security risks since 2013. This update brings with it three new entries to…
VIDEO: Acunetix Login Sequence Recorder
The Acunetix Login Sequence Recorder can be used to test password-protected areas of your website automatically. In order to scan a form-based password protected area, you will need to make use of a Login Sequence during the scan. The Login Sequence can be configured from…
How can I integrate Acunetix with another third party application?
Acunetix includes an API which can be used to integrate Acunetix with other applications. The API allows the creation and scanning of Targets,retrieve scan results and generate Acunetix reports. Contact us to get more information, and for a copy of the Acunetix API documentation.
How can I be sure that Acunetix has crawled my entire website?
The scan results of a web scan includes the Site Structure identified and scanned by Acunetix. This can be accessed from the Scan Results page > Site Structure tab. Click on the folder icons to expand the site structure. Acunetix will show the vulnerabilities identified…
Configuring Acunetix to exclude scanning a portion of website
There are situations where you may need to configure Acunetix to exclude a portion of web application from crawling and scanning. This might be required if the web application being scanned is too large, or if scanning part of the site might trigger unwanted actions…
How do I update to the latest Acunetix build?
Keeping Acunetix up-to-date is important to ensure you always get the latest updates to existing and newly added tests, features, bugfixes and improvements. Fortunately it’s not only easy but transparent. By default Acunetix automatically checks for updates, installs any new updates in the background without…
How to Backup Acunetix
Backing-up your Acunetix data and settings is important and should be done frequently, especially on production systems. This post will show how to do this manually and will also offer a sample implementation in PowerShell for automating the process. Warning: This content applies to older…