48 hours since the latest in the series of BIG BUGS 2014 has made the news, and the Internet community is still struggling to assess the damage. After the initial moments of disbelief, researchers started coming to terms with the fact that Bash had a…
BASH Vulnerability leaves IT Experts Shell Shocked!
Yesterday, a critical vulnerability was reported in GNU Bash. Bash is the Bourne Again Shell that is installed on all Linux distributions. The vulnerability is related to the way environment variables are parsed before running the BASH shell. It is possible to create environment variables that include…
Acunetix OVS Update, Spots Vulnerabilities with Military Precision
An important update has just been rolled out to Acunetix Online Vulnerability Scanner (OVS) which includes 2 features unique to Acunetix – AcuSensor and AcuMonitor. Both technologies have been successfully used in Acunetix WVS to enhance scan results by improving vulnerability detection and detecting difficult…
Statistics about the leaked Gmail, Yandex, Mail.ru passwords
Around 10 million email addresses and passwords were recently leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Many websites report about 5 million Gmail accounts the leak includes also accounts from 2 popular russian mail providers (Yandex and Mail.ru). The leak contains the following: ~5 million Gmail…
Alliance Training Courses Improve Acunetix User Skills
Alliance Technology Partners, partnering with Acunetix since 2007, have announced they shall be offering Acunetix Training Courses, delivered via the web, by two of their senior security engineers. This Basic Training 3 hour course, is highly interactive and tailored to the users’ experience level and…
WordPress 4.0 “Benny” released
The long awaited WordPress version 4.0, codenamed “Benny” in honour of jazz clarinettist and band leader Benny Goodman has been released. While this does seem like a major release to some of us, since it includes a good amount of features easing the blog writers’…
List of checks done by Acunetix on WordPress
In a bid to ensure WordPress Security, an Acunetix web vulnerability scan is able to detect a WordPress installation, and will execute various WordPress related checks when the popular blogging web application is identified. When WordPress is detected, Acunetix will issue the following knowledge base…
Acunetix WVS v9.5 build 20140902 detects Hibernate Query Injection, Format Strings and more
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9.5 build 20140902 has been updated to include new vulnerability checks, including detection of Hibernate Query Injection, format strings vulnerabilities, MySQL username disclosure and others, including some, in well-known web applications. This new build also optimises existing checks, including its…
Balancing web security with your compliance requirements
As an executive responsible for many aspects of running your business, it can be difficult and downright confusing trying to understand the balance between Web security and compliance. Your IT, information security, and internal audit teams may be telling you completely different things based on…