In light of the recent Sony Pictures hack, it’s important to clarify the facts and examine how such an attack might have taken place, to serve as a learning experience for other companies. News about the hack on Sony Pictures’ infrastructure continue to unfold, with…
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Delegate tasks, limit access and stay in control with Invicti OVS Multi-User Access
A new feature to the online version of Invicti – Invicti Online Vulnerability Scanner (OVS) now allows the owner of an account to create child users, delegating vulnerability scanning and reporting tasks to other users and at the same time auditing their actions. This increased…
Critical Drupal SQL Injection vulnerability
Drupal has released a HIGHLY CRITICAL security advisory for its latest version of the popular content management system, urgently advising users to update to Drupal 7.32 or install a patch to fix the vulnerability. The vulnerability, reported by Stefan Horst from SektionEins GmbH, allows for unauthenticated…
POODLE gives the final bite and puts SSLv3 to rest
Yesterday, the details of the latest vulnerability affecting SSL started emerging, and in no time, everyone started talking, or rather blogging about POODLE. POODLE stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption and affects the 15 year old SSLv3, which should have been deprecated and…
How to Configure Invicti to Successfully Crawl WIVET
WIVET stands for Web Input Extractor Teaser, and is a web application that is designed to test the crawling capabilities of web application scanners. WIVET has been used in web application scanner reviews, such as the reputable review by Shay Chen – The Web Application Vulnerability…
ShellShock’s magnitude for potential damage – truly shocking!
48 hours since the latest in the series of BIG BUGS 2014 has made the news, and the Internet community is still struggling to assess the damage. After the initial moments of disbelief, researchers started coming to terms with the fact that Bash had a…
WordPress 4.0 “Benny” released
The long awaited WordPress version 4.0, codenamed “Benny” in honour of jazz clarinettist and band leader Benny Goodman has been released. While this does seem like a major release to some of us, since it includes a good amount of features easing the blog writers’…
List of checks done by Invicti on WordPress
In a bid to ensure WordPress Security, an Invicti web vulnerability scan is able to detect a WordPress installation, and will execute various WordPress related checks when the popular blogging web application is identified. When WordPress is detected, Invicti will issue the following knowledge base…
Heartbleed Used to Steal Credentials and Breach Community Health Systems
Last Monday, Community Health Systems (CHS) filed an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, confirming a security breach which occurred in April and June, 2014. CHS blamed the breach on a group of Chinese hackers. The 8-K filing confirms that the hackers…