Acunetix reseller DMC Technology-Scotland will be exhibiting Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner at the All-Energy 2011 Exhibition and Conference. The event will be held at on the 18th – 20th May 2011 at the Aberdeen Pavilion, AECC., Scotland. Head over to DMC Technology-Scotland at stand AB16 to have your…
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Cross Site Scripting Attacks
Hackers are constantly experimenting with a wide repertoire of hacking techniques to compromise websites and web applications and make off with a treasure trove of sensitive data including credit card numbers, social security numbers and even medical records. Cross Site Scripting (also known as XSS…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 build 20110308 released
An updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 7 was released. This new build features a number of new security checks, automatic crawling and scanning of SVN repositories, improved Cross-site scripting checks and a number of bug fixes. New feature: Acunetix WVS will parse…
Acunetix voted Windowsecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner for the Fourth Time
For the fourth time in a row, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Chosen as the Windowsecurity.Com Readers’ Choice Award Winner. The leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in the Web Application Security category of the…
How to Avoid the Google Blacklist
In the ‘old days’ – around 4 to 6 years ago, when the Google Blacklist was less of a news item – hackers were primarily interested in stealing customer data from websites. They would cause absolute havoc after breaking in, stealing anything from customer credit card…
Acunetix WVS Version 7 build 20110209 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 7 was released. With this new build, you can generate PCI 2.0 compliance reports and CWE/SANS top 25 reports. The Input Fields feature was also enhanced, and now it supports wildcards and prioritization of input fields. New features:…
General Facts and Figures on Web Hacking
Facts about Web Hacking Verizon Business conducted a 2009 study of 90 Web data breaches. The results of this study were presented in The Data Breach Investigative Report (DBIR) and included the following facts and figures: 285 million data records were exposed in the 90…
Cross-site Scripting
One of the most common forms of Web application vulnerability is Cross-site Scripting. This security vulnerability allows attackers to implant malicious scripts into websites. The scripts will execute in the browsers of visitors to the site, within the hosting website security zone. This provides the…
The Threat of Directory Traversal Attacks
Understanding Directory Traversal One of the critical functions of a secure Web server is controlling access to restricted directories. HTTP exploit attacks circumvent Web server security and use malicious software to access the content of restricted directories. Directory Traversal is one such HTTP vulnerability. The…