January 20, 2012 - Yesterday’s announcement by the US Department of Justice that the operators of file-sharing site Megaupload had been indicted for operating a criminal enterprise that generated over $175 million by trafficking in over half a billion dollars of (continue reading...) Read more
January 17, 2012 - Tomorrow, on January 18, 2012, dozens of popular websites covering a diverse range of subjects will be blacking out their home pages in protest of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Some of these websites are well-known, such (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2012 - Join Chester Wisniewski and James Hilliard for a webcast covering the latest security developments from the second half of 2011 on January 26th, 2012 at 19:00 UTC/2PM Eastern time. Read more
December 26, 2011 - Last week, China's largest software programmers' Web site CSDN (China Software Developer Network) was hacked, and account information for more than 6 million users was leaked and quickly spread via the Internet. One day later, Tianya, the biggest (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2011 - You may already know about the recent launch of the .xxx domain that is designed for websites with adult content. That is just the tip of the iceberg. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2011 - The next big release of Acunetix WVS is in Beta, and will soon be safeguarding thousands of web applications and businesses. This brief presentation highlights the exciting new (continue reading...) Read more
November 16, 2011 - The next stage in the evolution of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner has arrived — WVS 8 BETA! Many of you have been biting their nails in (continue reading...) Read more
November 14, 2011 - The Sky News business Twitter account was apparently hacked last night to display a false message claiming that News Corporation's Chief Executive and Chairman James Murdoch had been arrested by police in London. (continue reading...) Read more
September 20, 2011 - A security research team called Vulnerability-Lab have discovered a persistent XSS vulnerability in the official website of Barack Obama. This is not the first time that the president’s website was targeted. About a year (continue reading...) Read more
September 12, 2011 - On Thursday morning a post appeared on the popular Full Disclosure Internet discussion group listing XSS vulnerabilities in no less than 20 high profile websites. Amongst the vulnerable are McDonalds, IEEE Explore, Harvard University, and energy.gov. The vulnerabilities were discovered (continue reading...) Read more
September 1, 2011 - There’s no way the (continue reading...) Read more
August 16, 2011 - On the 31st of July 2011, the system administrator of Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing (BJM) was working on his newly upgraded servers. At exactly the same time a hacker was slowly sniffing his way through the same systems and picking up everything in his (continue reading...) Read more
August 10, 2011 - Hi everyone, Black Hat this year was really great. We spent a lot of time talking to people and getting new perspectives on the security landscape and of course, we announced the BlueHat (continue reading...) Read more
August 4, 2011 - On the 12th of July 2011, Booz Allen Hamilton the largest U.S. military defence contractor admitted that they had just suffered a very serious security breach, at the hands of hacktivist group AntiSec. Operation Anti-Security (AntiSec) is a hacking operation, carried out by (continue reading...) Read more
July 21, 2011 - As part of our commitment to help companies and business secure their websites and web applications, we are launching the Acunetix Forums. If you are an (continue reading...) Read more
July 14, 2011 - The Washington Post website has been hit with a double security breach. Hackers have made off with around 1.3 million user IDs and email address from the “Jobs” section of the (continue reading...) Read more
July 4, 2011 - Alarming results have been announced following a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Research Institute (continue reading...) Read more
June 22, 2011 - Sega Corporation has joined the increasingly long list of video game companies to suffer a data breach. In an email sent to members of its Sega Pass service, (continue reading...) Read more
June 20, 2011 - We are pleased to announce a new system to record feature requests, which allows feature ideas to be voted upon and thus makes its much easier for us to see the (continue reading...) Read more
June 17, 2011 - Secure your web applications and websites against vulnerabilities with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner! Hacking is on the rise and the number of victims is increasing every day. See how firewalls, (continue reading...) Read more