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Acunetix takes first place in black box web vulnerability scanners comparison
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner placed first in a paper released by Adam Doup´e, Marco Cova, and Giovanni Vigna from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the paper “Why Johnny Can’t Pentest: An Analysis of Black-box Web Vulnerability Scanners”, the authors compared the capalities of…
Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 build 20100407 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released. This build includes a number of bug fixes Bug Fixes: Fixed: Login Sequence Recorder was not using client certificates when recording a login sequence Fixed: Login Sequence Recorder was not using the configured User…
Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 build 20100303 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released. This build includes a new feature and new security checks, improvements and addresses a number of bug fixes. New Feature: Added new option to export results to HTTP Fuzzer New Security Checks: Test for…
Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 build 20100210 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released. This build addresses a number of bug fixes , an updated Acunetix Firefox extension and a new security check. New Security Check: Test for Cross Site Scripting in the Referrer header Improvement: Acunetix Firefox…
FAQ: Can I scan a website that uses URL rewrite without specifying URL rewrite rules in Acunetix WVS?
Although it is not a suggested operation, yes, you can still scan a website which has URL rewrite enabled without specifying any URL rewrite rules in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. Unlike other scanners, Acunetix WVS will advise you once it detects that the target website…
Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 build 20100203 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released with a number of new security checks, improvements and bug fixes. New security checks: 8.3 DOS filename source code disclosure Apache Tomcat Directory Host Appbase authentication bypass vulnerability Apache Tomcat WAR File directory traversal…
Statistics from the top 1,000,000 websites
Note: This article refers to an older version of Acunetix. Click here to download the latest version. The next version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (version 7), will contain a much more improved HTTP stack. While testing, we wanted to test the new HTTP stack…
Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 build 20100111 released
An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released with a number of new security checks and bug fixes. New security checks: Test for File Upload IIS bug filename.asp;.jpg Test for WP-Forum 2.3 vulnerabilities JBoss rmi ping (network script) Bug Fixes: Bugfix: Modified…