Sega Corporation has joined the increasingly long list of video game companies to suffer a data breach. In an email sent to members of its Sega Pass service, it admitted that the user accounts over almost 1.3 million users had been compromised.
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Other Web Security Scanners Ejected as US Air Force Selects Invicti
US Air Force Chooses Invicti Web Vulnerability Scanner to Secure Against Web Application Vulnerabilities USA, June 13 2011 – Invicti, developer of leading website security scanning software, today announced that the United States Air Force has selected Invicti Web Vulnerability Scanner to defend against millions…
Barracuda Networks Breached
Introduction On April 11th 2011, at nine in the evening, Barracuda Networks posted a grim entry on their blog. Their network had been hacked. Thousands of their confidential customer and employee records were stolen. In an ironic twist of fate, the company that advocates security…
"Invicti Quickly Detects a Wide Variety of Vulnerabilities"
With all the talk lately, especially in the OWASP LinkedIn forum, about the most expensive web scanners being the so-called best, Infosec Island have put the far more affordable Web Vulnerability Scanners to the test. By using two well known web applications that were purposely developed with…
Invicti voted Windowsecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner for the Fourth Time
For the fourth time in a row, Invicti Web Vulnerability Scanner Chosen as the Windowsecurity.Com Readers’ Choice Award Winner. The leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Invicti Web Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in the Web Application Security category of the…
Invicti WVS v7 build 20101206 automatically checks for DOM XSS
The new build of Invicti Web Vulnerability scanner Version 7 checks for DOM based XSS vulnerabilities. Unlike the traditional cross-site scripting vulnerability, document object model based cross-site scripting (DOM XSS) vulnerability is a type of vulnerability which affects the script code in the client’s browser. …
Notable changes in PCI DSS 2.0 affecting Web application security
“Clarification, additional guidance, and evolving requirements” – welcome to the new PCI standards! Hot off the press are the new PCI DSS and PA-DSS requirements which take effect January 1, 2011. So, if you work in or around Web application security, it’ll behoove you to…
Internet Voting Trial Thwarted by Hackers
The District of Columbia recently attempted to give the opportunity to number of people who live or work overseas to be able to cast their vote remotely. To do this a secure E-Voting website costing over $300,000 was built. On Tuesday, September 28 2010 the first public trial run was launched. Thirty-six hours later the voting system was hacked by a student. It took nearly three days for D.C officials to realize that their system was compromised. The trial was immediately suspended and red-faced engineers and politicians quickly scrambled to find out how this breach could possibly have happened.