The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard for assessing the severity of security vulnerabilities, designed in such a way that makes it independent from any vendor or industry. In our previous blog post, we discussed CVSS v3 and how Acunetix provides support…
Acunetix briefing at RSA Conference 2016
We are pleased to announce that our Product Communications Manager, Ian Muscat, will be presenting a briefing, at RSA Conference, entitled “Detecting Stealthy Web Application Vulnerabilities Automatically”. The briefing will be held on Thursday 3rd March at 1130 in the South Expo. See invite below…
Cybersecurity National Action Plan: Obama Outlines Plans to Spend $19 billion on Cybersecurity
On February 9th President Obama announced the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, including steps such as establishing a cybersecurity commission, introducing new safeguarding measures and supporting both companies and consumers in strengthening their own security. He’s also put the money where his mouth is and backed…
Acunetix v10.5 assigns CVSS 3.0 scoring to its vulnerabilities
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard for assessing the severity of security vulnerabilities. “Common” being the keyword, indicating that CVSS is designed to not only be independent to a specific vendor or industry, but also interoperable across systems that vary in…
Drupal Security: Top tips to secure your Drupal application
Drupal is a very popular Content Management System (CMS) on the Internet today. Drupal security should be at the forefront of anyone running a Drupal site, especially if running older versions of the CMS or it’s modules, since these are a ripe target for attackers….
Joomla! Security Tips: Securing Configurations
Heads up — Depending on your web server’s configuration for active extensions, the following could break some functionality. It is strongly advised to try out any configuration in a testing/staging environment before changing any configuration on production servers Prevent Directory Listing Directory Listing occurs when…
Joomla Security: Top tips to secure a Joomla! application
Joomla! is a very popular Content Management System (CMS) on the Internet today. Joomla security should be at the forefront of anyone running a Joomla! site, especially ones running older versions of the CMS or it’s extensions, since these are a ripe target for attackers….
Acunetix v10.5 adds support for Joomla! Drupal and CVSS3.0
A new version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanners v10.5 has been released. The new version tests for Joomla! and Drupal vulnerabilities, supports CVSS 3.0 and includes other improvements/bug fixes. Joomla! and Drupal Support Acunetix v10.5 now reports vulnerabilities in popular content management systems Joomla! and Drupal. The…
Identifying open ports – An important step to securing your perimeter
Locking the doors and windows to your house won’t stop someone from getting in if they are really determined. However, it is still a lot harder than opening an unlocked door or window. Breaking into a locked house, takes a lot more time and typically…