Welcome to the Acunetix Quick Start Guide. This short guide covers how to launch a scan, analyze the scan results and create a report. For further information and help, please visit https://www.acunetix.com/support
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Keeping your Website Secure just got Easier with Acunetix 10
Automated Scanning of login protected pages, extended support for Java Frameworks and Ruby on Rails, and the detection of vulnerabilities in WP core and WP plugins.
In the headlines: Windows 10, Drupal, GitHub and more
Windows 10 due to support SSH As you should now have heard, or as you might notice from the new little Windows icon on your taskbar, Windows 10 is due to be released at the end of July. The most interesting bit of news from…
XML external entity injection via REST APIs
The new version of Acunetix Web Vulnerability scanner comes with improved support for scanning REST APIs. When Acunetix WVS finds an REST API definition (via a WADL file or from Acunetix DeepScan) it also scans this API resource for XML external entity injection vulnerabilities. If…
How to scan REST APIs using Acunetix WVS version 10
In this blog post I’m going to describe 3 different ways to scan REST APIs using the new version 10 of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. 1. REST API automatically discovered via Acunetix DeepScan Let’s start with a simple web application that is using REST. It…
Improved support for Ruby on Rails web applications
Aside from better scanning of Java/J2EE web applications, Acunetix WVS version 10 comes with improved support for web applications built using the popular framework Ruby on Rails. A lot of new Rails specific tests were added in the new version. For example, many Rails developers…
Better scanning of Java / J2EE web applications
With the release of Acunetix WVS version 10, we’ve introduced a lot of improvements on how we test Java web applications. Java web applications are notoriously hard to scan automatically for many reasons, the most important one being session management. This type of application will…
ASD Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions
In Australia, the government provides formal guidance regarding cyber security in the form of the ‘Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions’ document, issued by the Department of Defence. This ties with the statutory information security compliance which anyone handling Australian Government data is subject to….
UK 2015 information security breaches survey
The UK 2015 information security breaches survey has just been published, showing as anticipated that just about every aspect of security breaches is on the increase. A staggering 90% of large organisations surveyed admitted to having experienced at least one breach within the last year,…