Most web vulnerabilities are a result of bad coding habits or lack of PHP security awareness by developers. The source of probably all of them relies in the fact that user input, which plays a critical role in the security of a web application, is…
PHP Security: The Big Picture
Whether your site is the web presence for a large multinational, a gallery showing your product range and inviting potential customers to come into the shop, or a personal site exhibiting your holiday photos, web security always matters. No matter what programming language you use…
Acunetix President’s Club Award Winners
Big congratulations go to our President’s Club Award Winners for the months of February through to November. Awards were presented by CEO Chris Martin, during the annual Christmas Staff party. Paola Monforte Alvarez, Jon Muscat, Eric Brown, Daniel McClean, Damian Fearnley and Jean-Michel Azzopardi –…
What is Insecure Deserialization?
Insecure Deserialization is a vulnerability which occurs when untrusted data is used to abuse the logic of an application, inflict a denial of service (DoS) attack, or even execute arbitrary code upon it being deserialized. It also occupies the #8 spot in the OWASP Top…
Off to the Foodbank we go!
This year Acunetix has teamed up with local charity The Foodbank at St.Andrew’s that helps individuals and families in short term crisis, through the provision of emergency food supplies. Acunetix staff collected non-perishable food items and baby products, to be delivered to the Foodbank. All staff…
Online Security: Application Security Testing – Part 2
Part 1 in this series looked at Online Security and the flawed protocols it lays upon. Online Security is complex and its underlying fabric was built without security in mind. Here we shall be exploring aspects of Application Security Testing. We live in a world…
OWASP Top 10 2017 Update – What You Need to Know
After the long-winding road of discussion and deliberation, revision, disagreements and adjustments, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) are updating their venerable Top 10 list of the most critical web application security risks since 2013. This update brings with it three new entries to…
Online Security: The Underlying Infrastructure – Part 1
Technology Revolutionized A plethora of valuable solutions now run on web-based applications. One could argue that web applications are the forefront of the world. More importantly, we must equip them with appropriate online security tools to barricade against the rising web vulnerabilities. With the right…
New build adds detection for CMS Made Simple vulnerabilities and many other updates
Acunetix v11 (build 11.0.173131028) has been released. This new build introduces new vulnerability checks for CMS Made Simple, adds support for Selenium scripts as import files, and includes a good list of updates and bug fixes. Below is a full list of updates. New Features…