Select or create your own scan types To create your own custom scan type you will need to: Navigate to ‘Settings’ from the navigation menu Navigate to the ‘Scan Types’ tab Click on the ‘New’ button Specify a name for your scanning profile in the…
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Getting Started with the Acunetix Blind SQL Injector
The Blind SQL Injector is a tool that forms part of the Acunetix Manual Pen Testing Tools suite (available to download for free). The Blind SQL Injector allows you to enumerate MySQL and MSSQL databases via a Blind SQL injection vulnerability. You can start using…
New EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) Introduce Fines of up to €20m
It’s been a long time coming but in 2018, the new EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are finally set to come into force, placing new requirements on anyone handling European consumer information. Despite Brexit, this will also apply in the UK to any company…
In the headlines: Yahoo hack, Krebs DDoS attack, Drupal vulnerabilities and more
500m users affected in giant Yahoo hack and lawsuits already filed The latest breach to be dubbed ‘the biggest breach ever’ is the newly revealed theft of the data 500 million Yahoo users, which took place in 2014. Yahoo admitted this news just last week,…
In the headlines: US Department of Energy, IBM census site, NSA cyber defense hack, Sage data breach and more
US Department of Energy invests $34m in cybersecurity The Department of Energy in the US is set to invest $34m in 12 individual projects aimed to secure the smart grid. The projects are described as being aimed to improve the ‘reliability and resilience’ of US…
In the headlines: LastPass vulnerability, Hillary Leaks, remote code execution vuln on Pornhub, and more
LastPass password manager vulnerability gives hackers your passwords LastPass is one of the most popular password managers around and can also be added to your browser, allowing you to store and auto fill all your passwords, using just one master password to access them. So…
EU Network and Information Security Directive sets legal requirement to report breaches
The EU have just passed a new directive, the Network and Information Security Directive, which was approved in December of 2015 and passed through last week. The directive comes into force in August of this year, with a 21 month limit to implement it, by…
Recent survey shows cost of a breach has climbed to $158 per record
A recently published report titled the ‘2016 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis’ has suggested that the average cost of a data breach continues to climb, now reaching an average of $4million per breach, or $158 per record from a survey of 383 companies…
In the headlines: TeamViewer hack, LinkedIn hack, TrainLink breach and more
TeamViewer hack – PCs hijacked and bank accounts drained TeamViewer, the remote desktop connection software that allows users to share screens and allow remote access from anywhere in the world recently went offline allegedly due to a DOS-attack. Users however, claim that their computers were…