Black Hat, founded by Jeff Moss (Dark Tangent), is one of the biggest and best-known cybersecurity conferences in the world. Organized in the USA since 1997 and in Europe and Asia since 2000, it is perceived as aimed at the corporate world but it caters…
PHP Security Guide
PHP remains the most popular server-side language for websites and web applications. According to the latest data from w3techs, it is used by 79% of websites whose server-side language is known. Therefore, secure PHP programming and configuration are of critical importance. There are more reasons,…
Secure Your Node.js .env Files
Node.js is an environment that helps you create server-side applications using JavaScript. One of the common Node.js elements that developers like and use are .env files. These files let you easily save and load environment variables. Developers often use them to store confidential information. However,…
Malta A.I. & Blockchain Summit 2019 Highlights
Acunetix held a stand at the Spring Edition of the Malta A.I. & Blockchain Summit 2019 that took place on May 23-24, 2019 on the ‘Blockchain Island’ of Malta, at the Hilton Business Centre. The event was very well received. It brought together over 5,500…
Chrome Tightens CSRF Protection
The Chrome 76 browser, which is expected in July 2019, will include tighter controls for the SameSite cookie attribute. This attribute is used by website or web application developers when they set cookies. It specifies whether the cookie may be used in a third-party context….
Visit Us at the National Homeland Security Conference 2019
The National Homeland Security Conference is sponsored by the United States National Homeland Security Association. The conference is organized annually in various US locations since 2005. Its goal is to enable local homeland security and emergency management professionals to exchange information on anything related to…
Preventing NTP Reflection Attacks
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is the standard protocol for time synchronization in the IT industry. It is widely used by servers, mobile devices, endpoints, and network devices, irrespective of their vendor. The latest version of NTP (version 4) is defined in RFC 5905. The…
Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner Now With Network Security Scans
Seamless OpenVAS integration now also available on Windows and Linux London, UK – May 2019 – Acunetix, the pioneer in automated web application security software, has announced that Premium versions of the Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner now support network security scanning. Network security scans are possible…
New build includes new Network Scanning integration, IPv6 support, improved resource usage and many new vulnerability checks
Acunetix version 12 (build 12.0.190515149 – Windows and Linux) has been released. This new build introduces network scanning in Acunetix on-premise, support for IPv6, improves usage of machine resources and adds support for Selenium and Burp v2 saved files as import files. There are also…