Recently somebody posted on Reddit about a WordPress scanner that is taking advantage of a new WordPress vulnerability. The vulnerability is abusing the Pingback system, which is a well-known feature that’s used by a lot of bloggers. What is a Pingback? Quoting Wikipedia: A pingback…
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New Acunetix WVS Build Includes ISO 27001 Template
We’ve just released a new version of Acunetix WVS version 8 – build 20121213 – which includes several new security checks such as the new module that tests Slow HTTP Denial of Service attacks like Slowloris. We’ve also added a good number of improvements and bug…
New and Improved Security Features with Acunetix Update 20121113
We’ve just released an update for Acunetix Web Vulnerability 8 – build 20121113 – which gives you a brand new PHP code execution test for Invision Power Board, as well as a number of improvements and fixes. New Security Checks New PHP code execution test for Invision Power…
Automate more with the new Acunetix WVS 8 build
The new Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner build number 20121106 includes a number of new features, new security checks, product improvements and as well bug fixes. To help web security experts automate their work, in this new build we included a new feature that allows you…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 build 20121003 released
The new Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 build includes a new crawler feature to automatically ignore duplicate input schemes in the same directory. With this new crawler feature, scans will take less time to complete and less traffic is generated during a scan. The new…
Scanning a Shopping Cart with an Automated Security Scanner
Many of today’s large scale websites are template based. This means that most of the website pages which users visit are usually built from the same template file. Thus it is normal for a template based websites to be made up of about 20 or…
New Features and Security Checks Added to Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8
The new build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner released today includes a number of new features, new security checks and also a number of bug fixes. Ideal for scanning and securing today’s complex custom web applications, the main new feature allows importing of multiple HTTP…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 Build 20120808 Released
We are pleased to announce an updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS 8). The new build 20120808 offers a number of new security checks for several different well known web applications, improvements and also a number bug fixes. New Feature: Acunetix WVS…
How does Acunetix Compare to Other Web Application Vulnerability Scanners?
In the 2012 Web Application Vulnerability Scanners Benchmark report, which was carried out by Shay-Chen on his website, Sectooladdict, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner topped the Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection tests with a 100% detection rate and 0% false positives! Click here to read the…