Unlike web application firewalls, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner focuses on fixing web security problems, whether than preventing them from happening. Acunetix WVS helps in detecting cross site scripting, sql injections and other web vulnerabilities before the web application is exposed on the internet, during its…
OpenX 2.6.4 vulnerabilities were identified with Acusensor
If you are making use of OpenX, the following update fixes a number of security flaws that were identified when we made use of Acunetix WVS with the Acusensor technology enabled. Released an advisory detailing these vulnerabilities here. The SQL injection vulnerabilities abuse an INSERT…
When Google claims that "This site may harm your computer"
This warning does not refer to this particular site (Acunetix.com) but to quite a few websites out there. This is a notice that will show up when a Google search lists websites that are flagged as dangerous. Google’s search engine works together with StopBadware.org to…
A quick security analysis of Facebook’s Album Privacy
Most social networking sites have privacy options which allow users to share photo albums with selected people or groups. Such features encourage end users to upload possibly compromising photos, for example photos of last night’s party. The idea is that it is acceptable to share…
Drupal Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
I was testing our scanner (with AcuSensor enabled) on Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) and the scanner found a possible File Inclusion vulnerability. As you can see from the screenshot above, the GET variable q was set to start/../../xxx….end and it got partially sanitized. It reached the include…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Voted Windowsecurity.Com Readers’ Choice Award Winner for the second time
Acunetix WVS Singled Out by Network Security Administrators and Specialists London, UK – 26 February 2009 – 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 WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards….
AcuSensor and the pink blog
While testing our AcuSensor technology, I downloaded a small PHP blog application from the internet. The installation went smoothly. This particular application was not using a database but it was storing everything in text files. I added a sample blog post and I was ready…
How can low privilege bugs lead to a server compromise?
To address a large number of security concerns, it is often recommended that web applications make effective use of “the principle of least privilege“. The idea is that one should only grant the privileges on the basis that they are needed. In a previous post,…
Updated Acunetix addresses Ananta’s comparison report issues
In just 2 weeks, we released an updated version of Acunetix WVS version 6 to address issues reported in an independent web scanner comparison report published by Ananta. What’s for sure is that now we will do even better than we already did as a…