The e-commerce business has been growing exponentially for the past 10 years. Hundreds of thousands of businesses have moved online and millions of users have taken their shopping to the Internet. During this rush, everyone seems to ignore security, as a concept and requirement. E-commerce…
Prevent Your Network Getting Hacked with a Free Acunetix Security Scan
Free scan will identify network security issues including the feared Heartbleed to allow businesses to fix them in time London, June 17, 2014 – The recent Heartbleed vulnerability has highlighted the urgent need for more network level security scanning. In view of this, Acunetix has…
The TweetDeck Worm: How it Worked
TweetDeck is a very popular Twitter application (with 23% market share as of June 2009). The application was acquired by Twitter on May 25, 2011. On Wednesday, the user @derGeruhn, exploited a stored XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability in the TweetDeck application and created a worm…
Five Web Security Issues Present in Your Business Today
Web security is very complex – with a lot of unknowns. As an executive running a business with a lot of moving parts, I’m sure you can relate. There are numerous areas – both operational and technical – where web security is lacking in practically…
Analysis of an Intrusion: DOS Attack
What is DOS? Denial of Service (DOS) attacks are a type of malicious activity aimed at disrupting the availability of a server or service so it can no longer deliver its functionality. Such attacks are motivated either politically (e.g. rival countries or rival parties), financially…
Acunetix WVS v9.5 Build 20140602 – New Security Tests
Each Acunetix WVS update generally includes new vulnerability tests or an improvement to existing checks. This post summarizes the new security tests added in the latest Acunetix WVS update. Cross Domain Data Hijacking A website is vulnerable if an attacker can create/upload a malicious Flash (SWF) file…
Acunetix and ComGuard Renew Partnership
London, June 3 2014 – Acunetix, a global leader in web application security scanning has announced its renewed partnership with ComGuard, a leading value-added distributor for Networking and IT Security Products in the MENA Region. This collaboration will continue to allow organizations of all sizes, as well as security…
Acunetix WVS v9.5 build 20140602 includes new vulnerability checks for popular web applications and platforms
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9.5, build 20140602, identifies new vulnerabilities in Google Web Toolkit™, Joomla!, Parallels Plesk, nginx, and a number of WordPress plugins including the popular All in One SEO plugin. The following is the full list of updates included in this release….
Getting Back to Basics with Web Security
It’s usually the simple things in life that create the most problems – we’ve all learned this universal law the hard way. Be it slick tires when driving in the rain, that extra decimal point when doing our taxes, or a bad Ethernet patch cable…