One big thing that is missing from this industry is empirical trend data that supports the TRUE risks and costs associated with hacking and malware infections. To date, weâve written quite alot about customer-specific impacts when they are infected⌠The âresultsâ run the gambit of…
The top Web vulnerability we face
I recently took some time off which gave me the opportunity to clear my head and think about some of the big issues weâre facing with Internet security. I thought if I had to pick one thing, what would be the greatest Web vulnerability out…
Statistics from the top 1,000,000 websites – part II
This is the second part of an older article we posted, where we present some statistics from the top 1,000,000 sites on the internet. We are using the Alexa database as source for our statistics. In the first part of this article, we presented the…
Invicti WVS Version 6.5 build 20100303 released
An updated build of Invicti WVS Version 6.5 has been released. This build includes a new feature and new security checks, improvements and addresses a number of bug fixes. New Feature: Added new option to export results to HTTP Fuzzer New Security Checks: Test for…
Top 10 Reasons Not to Invest in Website Security
For some light humor! 1) You really enjoy waking up in the morning with your coffee, hitting your homepage, and finding a new page marketing âspecial offersâ for âenhancementâ products⌠You spill your coffee, burnâŚouch. 2) You just love getting a hosting bill showing your…
Invicti voted Windowsecurity.com readers’ choice award winner
Invicti Web Vulnerability Scanner Voted Windowsecurity.Com Readersâ Choice Award Winner for the third time in a row London, UK â 25 February 2010 â Leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced today that Invicti Web Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in the Web Application Security…
Invicti WVS Version 6.5 build 20100210 released
An updated build of Invicti WVS Version 6.5 has been released. This build addresses a number of bug fixes , an updated Invicti Firefox extension and a new security check. New Security Check: Test for Cross Site Scripting in the Referrer header Improvement: Invicti Firefox…
Authenticated XSS – problem or not?
Obviously, cross-site scripting (XSS) is a big problem on the public Web. But thereâs another angle to XSS that no one seems to be talking about â at least I’m not seeing anything on it. Itâs the issue of XSS on Web pages that are…
Latest Comparison Report from Larry Suto
Last week, Larry Suto published a report entitled “Accuracy and Time Costs of Web Application Security Scanner Report”.  I’ve started to investigate in detail the results from this report. And I’ve found a list of inaccuracies. Here is a direct quote from his paper: Methodology…