January 10, 2013 - Can you believe it’s time again for those New Year’s resolutions? It’s always great to start the New Year with a fresh set of to-do items that you’re finally going to get around to doing. The problem, however, is that (continue reading...) Read more
January 3, 2013 - In her 5 December article in The New York Times, "For PC Virus Victims, Pay or Else," cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth discusses the growing threat of ransomware in the USA. Ransomware is a type of malware that takes your computer (continue reading...) Read more
December 18, 2012 - Kindly note that the Acunetix Support Team will operate normally the last week of December 2012 and the first week of January 2013 with the following exceptions: 24 December – open until 6pm CET (GMT +1). 25, 26 December – (continue reading...) Read more
December 17, 2012 - 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 (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2012 - 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 (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2012 - You know the saying about riding a bicycle – do it once and you’ll remember it forever? That may be true for bicycles, but it’s certainly not the case when it comes to web security testing. The tools we use (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2012 - Successful web security testing is not as simple as point and click. Unfortunately, many people treat it as such. The thought process goes something like this: 1. Load web vulnerability scanner. 2. Enter URL to scan. 3. Click Go. 4. (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2012 - According to Ericka Chickowski in her 29 November article for Dark Reading, “10 Top Government Data Breaches Of 2012,” SQL injection, post-phishing and inadequately secured back-up information all contributed to spectacular comprises of data across the USA in 2012. Some (continue reading...) Read more
November 27, 2012 - Update: Seems to be working on TP-Link Routers as well (tested on TL-WR841N). Update2: Arcor EasyBox A600 also seems vulnerable. Opening a legitimate looking email on an iPhone, iPad or Mac while using an Asus router with a default or guessable password (continue reading...) Read more
November 23, 2012 - On November 4th, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet, who covers security, posted on his blog that NBC had suffered a hack on a number of its websites during the early morning of Sunday, November 4th. According to Vaughn-Nichols, as of (continue reading...) Read more
June 29, 2012 - Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) uses “session-in” and “session-out” patterns in order to detect if a logged in session on your website is invalidated and if need to be re-established. Acunetix WVS uses the recorded login sequence defined by the (continue reading...) Read more
June 29, 2012 - We are pleased to announce the appointment of Infrasec AG as Acunetix distributor for the German market. Infrasec is now responsible for (continue reading...) Read more
June 21, 2012 - By now you have probably heard about JSA. Introduced in AppScan Standard 8.0 in Oct '10, and now included in AppScan Enterprise 8.6, JSA is a component that does static analysis of JavaScript to detect a range of client-side security (continue reading...) Read more
June 21, 2012 - As application security professionals, we want to get as much as possible out of our security assessments. We’re not only (continue reading...) Read more
June 15, 2012 - An Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Scanning Profile defines which tests to launch against the target website. For example, if you wish to test a website against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, simply (continue reading...) Read more
June 13, 2012 - We are pleased to announce an updated build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS 8). The new build 20120613 offers a number of (continue reading...) Read more
June 8, 2012 - LinkedIn, one of the biggest professional social networks, has suffered a major breach of its user password database. The attack was confirmed on Wednesday afternoon by Vicente Silveira, (continue reading...) Read more
June 7, 2012 - Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner ( WVS ) offers you the ability to choose specific types of attacks to run (continue reading...) Read more
May 31, 2012 - Since I first got involved with information security I’ve been a strong proponent of focusing on the common sense basics. We all know what needs (continue reading...) Read more
May 24, 2012 - Among many advanced penetration testing tools provided, Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) offers you the HTTP (continue reading...) Read more